US Patent Issued to The Texas A&M University System on Jan. 28 for "Solvents for organometallic reagents" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,377, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Solvents for organometallic reagents" was invented by David E. Bergbreiter (College Station, Texas) and Thomas J. Malinski (Bryan, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution consisting of: a poly(a-olefin) (PAO) selected from the group consisting of PAO283, PAO432, and PAO687; and a reactive organometallic reagent selected from the group consisting of n-butyllithium, sec-butyllithium, tert-butyllithium, n-butyllithium in hexane, sec-butyllithium in cyclohexane, and tert-butyllithium in pentane."

The patent was filed on July 30, 20...