ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,895, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITAT HEIDELBERG (Heidelberg, Germany).
"Sulfur extrusion from disulfides by carbenes" was invented by Michael Mastalerz (Dossenheim, Germany) and Alexander Pascal Galow (Weinheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for preparing a compound T having a thioether group from a compound D having a disulfide group in the presence of a carbene."
The patent was filed on April 22, 2021, under Application No. 17/906,771.
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