US Patent Issued to The Florida International University Board of Trustees on Jan. 13 for "Synthesis of novel vanadium alkylidyne complexes and their use in metathesis reactions" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,622, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to The Florida International University Board of Trustees (Miami).

"Synthesis of novel vanadium alkylidyne complexes and their use in metathesis reactions" was invented by Konstantin Bukhryakov (Miami).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention provides a series of vanadium alkylidyne complexes with the metal center V being in high oxidation state, as well as novel methods for synthesizing these vanadium alkylidyne complexes using a vanadium oxo trialkoxyl complex as a starting material. The vanadium alkylidyne complexes of the subject invention can be used as catalysts for metathesis rea...