US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES on Feb. 3 for "Dihydroxylation of olefins using osmate (VI) salts" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,110, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC. (New York).

"Dihydroxylation of olefins using osmate (VI) salts" was invented by Yigal Becker (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Mohamad Gara (Jatt Village, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A highly efficient synthesis of cis-diol compounds through cis-dihydroxylation of olefins using osmate (VI) salt as catalysts is disclosed, which has found important application in efficient large-scale preparation of, among others, Alpha,Alpha-cedranediol from Alpha-cedrene."

The patent was filed on Nov. 4, 2020, under Application No. 17/774,021.

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