ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,512, issued on April 21, was assigned to OXEA GmbH (Germany).
"Process for the hydroformylation of olefins in homogeneous phase" was invented by Dennis Vogelsang (Dulmen, Germany), Lars Huttermann (Gelsenkirchen, Germany) and Tim Wilmsen (Herne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of aldehydes by hydroformylation of olefins by means of synthesis gas over a transition metal complex catalyst, wherein within a first process step the olefins are reacted by means of a water-soluble transition metal complex catalyst consisting of a metal and ligands bound thereto in the pre...