US Patent Issued to LOTTE CHEMICAL on May 12 for "Method of preparing heterogeneous linear carbonate using catalyst having excellent solubility" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,994, issued on May 12, was assigned to LOTTE CHEMICAL Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of preparing heterogeneous linear carbonate using catalyst having excellent solubility" was invented by Wang Gyu Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Mi Hwa Baek (Daejeon, South Korea), Jong Myung Choi (Daejeon, South Korea), Eun Hye Han (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jin Hyung Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of preparing a heterogeneous linear carbonate, the method including performing a transesterification reaction of dimethyl carbonate (DMC) and ethanol (EtOH) in the presence of a catalyst,...