US Patent Issued to DAICEL on Sept. 9 for "Method for producing olefin and olefination reaction catalyst" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,109, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DAICEL Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Method for producing olefin and olefination reaction catalyst" was invented by Yasuteru Kajikawa (Tokyo), Yuuichirou Hirai (Tokyo), Keisuke Ono (Tokyo), Keiichi Tomishige (Sendai, Japan) and Yoshinao Nakagawa (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method capable of producing an olefin with high selectivity and high yield using a vicinal diol as a raw material. A method for producing an olefin includes a step of reacting a compound including two adjacent carbon atoms each containing a hydroxy group with hydrogen and forming an olefin, and in th...