MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517054487 A) filed by Basf Se, Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany, on June 5, for 'iron carbonyl complexes with chiral, bidentate biphosphine ligands.'

Inventor(s) include Schelwies, Mathias; and Paciello, Rocco.

The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to iron carbonyl complexes of the general formula LFe(CO)3 (I), wherein L is a chiral, bidentate biphosphine ligand, to processes for preparing them and to their use as catalysts for hydrogenating olefins, for example alkyl-substituted olefins, or prochiral a,-...