US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on Dec. 23 for "Sigmatropic rearrangements of polymer backbones" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,550, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Sigmatropic rearrangements of polymer backbones" was invented by Aleksandr V Zhukhovitskiy (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Rachael A. J. Ditzler (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to polymers, methods for polymer synthesis, and methods of modifying the backbone of said polymers. Modification of the polymer backbone via a sigmatropic rearrangement allows facile entry into new, highly ordered polymers."

The patent was filed on Nov. 7, 2022, under Application No. 18/703,878.

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