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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Halogen Compound Replacement Process
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 27, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- Takehiko Iida and Toshihiro Wada, both of Aichi, Japan, and Toshiaki Mase of Okazaki, Japan, have developed a process for exchanging halogen compound.
According to a description of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is useful in the field of chemical industry. More particularly, the present invention relates to a process for exchanging functional groups and to a reagent for halogen-metal exchange reaction, with industrial advantage, for a variety of useful compounds in the fields of chemical industry products, agrochemicals, and pharmaceuticals."
The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,439,535 on Oct. 21.
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