US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on April 14 for "Electrochemical oxidation of cycloalkenes and cycloalkanes into Alpha,Omega-dicarboxylic acids or into ketocarboxylic acids and cycloalkanone compounds" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,067, issued on April 14, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Electrochemical oxidation of cycloalkenes and cycloalkanes into Alpha,Omega-dicarboxylic acids or into ketocarboxylic acids and cycloalkanone compounds" was invented by Frank Weinelt (Billerbeck, Germany), Franz-Erich Baumann (Duelmen, Germany), Siegfried R. Waldvogel (Gau-Algesheim, Germany) and Joachim Nikl (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process produces unsubstituted or at least monosubstituted Alpha,Omega-dicarboxylic acids or ketocarboxylic acids and unsubstituted or at least monosubstituted cycloalkanones by electro...