US Patent Issued to Dow Global Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Process for preparing an alpha-substituted acrylate" (Texas, Michigan, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,366, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Process for preparing an alpha-substituted acrylate" was invented by Evelyn Auyeung (Lake Jackson, Texas), Arkady L. Krasovskiy (Lake Jackson, Texas), Jaclyn Murphy (Ashland, Mass.), Bryan D. Stubbert (Midland, Mich.), Anna V. Davis (Auburn, Mich.) and Clark H. Cummins (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a process for preparing an alpha-substituted acrylate, the process comprising: a) combining starting materials comprising an alpha-(halomethyl) acrylate and an organoaluminum compound, thereby forming ...