US Patent Issued to Merck Patent on May 19 for "Material and method for performing a separation based on halogen bonding" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,612, issued on May 19, was assigned to Merck Patent GmbH (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Material and method for performing a separation based on halogen bonding" was invented by Berthold Theo Hoge (Bielefeld, Germany), Paul Lukas Waltersmann (Bielefeld, Germany) and Anne Julia Bader (Bielefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a new stationary phase carrying functional groups comprising a halogen substituted aromatic ring. Target molecules can interact with this stationary phase by halogen bonding. The stationary phase is suitable for SPE or chromatographic separations."

The patent was filed on Oct. 21, 2020, ...