US Patent Issued to Dow Silicones, Dow Global Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Method of preparing functional organosilanol compounds" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,530, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dow Silicones Corp. (Midland, Mich.) and Dow Global Technologies LLC (Midland, Mich.).

"Method of preparing functional organosilanol compounds" was invented by Donald V. Eldred (Midland, Mich.), Matthew Jeletic (Midland, Mich.), John Roberts (Midland, Mich.) and Andre Yvon-Bessette (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing an organosilanol compound is disclosed. The method comprises reacting (A) an initial organosilicon compound and (B) water in the presence of (C) a catalyst. The catalyst (C) is selected from: (C1) [(C8H12irCl]2[(p-cymene)RuCl2]2; and (C3) Pd/C. The ...