US Patent Issued to Firmenich on July 28 for "Reduction by a silane in the presence of Zinc catalyst" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,213, issued on July 28, was assigned to Firmenich SA (Switzerland).

"Reduction by a silane in the presence of Zinc catalyst" was invented by Thomas Jerphagnon (Satigny, Switzerland) and Joel Pastori (Satigny, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of organic synthesis. More specifically, it concerns a process for the selective reduction of a C3-C70 substrate containing one or more carbonyl or carboxylic functional groups into the corresponding alcohol diol, or polyalcohol in the presence of a silane and at least one catalyst or pre-catalyst in the form of a zinc complex. The Zinc complex...