US Patent Issued to The University of Southern Mississippi on June 2 for "Post-polymerization and polymeric material modification through gold catalysis and polymeric materials" (Georgia, Mississippi, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,969, issued on June 2, was assigned to The University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg, Miss.).

"Post-polymerization and polymeric material modification through gold catalysis and polymeric materials" was invented by Jason D. Azoulay (Atlanta), Eric R. King (Waltham, Mass.) and Samuel Hunt (Hattiesburg, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system provides new methods and processes for the reaction of polymeric/oligomeric substrates with reactants comprising alkyne/alkene and/or protic nucleophilic moieties to afford functionalized polymeric/oligomeric products through the utilization of homogenous and/or heterogenous gold cata...