US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY on Aug. 25 for "Catalytic hydrogenolysis of a polymer" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,826, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.).

"Catalytic hydrogenolysis of a polymer" was invented by Tobin Jay Marks (Evanston, Ill.), Yosi Kratish (Evanston, Ill.) and Alexander Heath Mason (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process for hydrogenolysis of a polymer that includes providing in a reactor the polymer, hydrogen gas and a supported organometallic catalyst. The supported organometallic catalyst formed from an organometallic complex precatalyst and an acidic metal oxide support. The polymer is reacted with the supported organometallic catalyst in the presence of ...