US Patent Issued to BASF on Sept. 30 for "Gas-phase process for the conversion of glycolaldehyde with an aminating agent" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,383, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BASF SE (Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany).

"Gas-phase process for the conversion of glycolaldehyde with an aminating agent" was invented by Tatjana Huber (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Martin Ernst (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Johann-Peter Melder (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Stephanie Jaegli (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany) and Thomas Krug (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the conversion of glycolaldehyde with an aminating agent in the presence of hy-5 drogen and of a catalyst, wherein the conversion is carried out in the gas phase."

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