MUMBAI, India, June 6 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202414090170 A) filed by Corning Incorporated, Corning, U.S.A., on Nov. 20, 2024, for 'method for continuous preparation of ethyl 4-chloroacetoacetate in microchannel reactor.'

Inventor(s) include Wang, Yanhua; and Xia, Yongan.

The application for the patent was published on June 6, under issue no. 23/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present application relates to a method for continuous preparation of ethyl 4-chloroacetoacetate in a microchannel reactor, comprising: (1) adding a catalyst to a solution of diketene to obtain Feed A, precooling Feed A and delivering it into a chlorination reaction module...