US Patent Issued to GALATA CHEMICALS on July 22 for "Process for the production of alkyltin halides" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,702, issued on July 22, was assigned to GALATA CHEMICALS LLC (Southbury, Conn.).

"Process for the production of alkyltin halides" was invented by Peter Frenkel (Danbury, Conn.), Joseph Salsbury (Southbury, Conn.) and Steven McKeown (Southbury, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process comprising: (a) contacting a feed stream comprising a di-alkyltin dihalide distillate with an alkylation agent, thereby forming an alkylated mixture comprising R4Sn and optionally R3SnX, R2SnX2, or mixtures thereof, where R is a linear, branched or cyclic C1-C20 alkyl, and X is a halide; (b) contacting the alkylated mixture with SnX4, thereby formi...