US Patent Issued to University of Kansas on April 21 for "Processes for the acylation of an aromatic compound" (Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,511, issued on April 21, was assigned to University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.).

"Processes for the acylation of an aromatic compound" was invented by Mark Brandon Shiflett (Lawrence, Kan.), Rajkumar Kore (Lawrence, Kan.) and Aaron M. Scurto (Oskaloosa, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes for acylating an aromatic compound are provided. In embodiments, such a process comprises combining an aromatic compound, an acylating agent, and a catalyst composition under conditions to induce acylation of the aromatic compound with the acylating agent, the catalyst composition comprising components selected from the group consisting of...