US Patent Issued to AGC on Feb. 10 for "Method of producing fluorine-containing compound and method of producing copolymer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,759, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AGC Inc. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing fluorine-containing compound and method of producing copolymer" was invented by Masahiro Ohkura (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Shun Watanuki (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a fluorine-containing compound is a method of producing a compound (30) having partial structure (3) by an insertion reaction of compound (20) into compound (10) that has partial structure (1), in the presence of an ionic catalyst formed from a specific monovalent anion and a counter cation. In the formulas, * represents a bonding site, and X1 and R1 to ...