ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,830, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).
"Ligands for production of 1-octene in chromium assisted ethylene oligomerization process" was invented by Maher Al-Dajane (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Abdulaziz Al-Nezari (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ilia Korobkov (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Khalid Albahily (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processes to produce tunable mixtures of 1-hexene and 1-octene are described. The process includes contacting a mixture of a 1-hexene catalyst and a 1-octene catalyst with ethylene under conditions sufficient to produce a composition that...