US Patent Issued to V. MANE FILS on Oct. 27 for "Hydroformylation catalyst system with syngas surrogate" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,687, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to V. MANE FILS (Le Bar-sur-Loup, France).

"Hydroformylation catalyst system with syngas surrogate" was invented by Fabien Grasset (Grasse, France) and Piotr Jaunky (Chateauneuf, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a hydroformylation catalyst system and method useful for producing aldehydes from olefin substrates, without using carbon monoxide gas. The hydroformylation catalyst system includes a hydroformylation catalyst complex including a Group 9 metal complexed with a phosphine-based ligand; a syngas surrogate including formic acid and an anhydride compound, which forms ca...