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Thomas Foo, Wilmington US

Thomas Foo, Wilmington, DE US

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090004707Process for Producing Glycolic Acid from Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090004708Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090004709Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde and Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090004710Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090004711Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-01-2009
20090011482Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-08-2009
20090011483Process For Producing Glycolic Acid From Formaldehyde And Hydrogen Cyanide - A process is provided for producing glycolic acid from formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide. More specifically, heat-treated formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide are reacted to produce glycolonitrile having low concentrations of impurities. The glycolonitrile is subsequently converted to an aqueous solution of ammonium glycolate using an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity derived from 01-08-2009
20090042997FLUOROALKYL ACID AMIDE SURFACTANTS - Compounds of formula (I) and formula (III):02-12-2009
20090182163PROCESS FOR MAKING AND REFINING 3-PENTENENITRILE, AND FOR REFINING 2-METHYL-3-BUTENENITRILE - The invention provides an integrated, continuous process for the production of 3-pentenenitrile, the refining of 3-pentenenitrile, and the refining of 2-methyl-3-butenenitrile, the process comprising: 07-16-2009
20090182164HYDROCYANATION OF PENTENENITRILES - The invention provides a hydrocyanation process to produce adiponitrile and other dinitriles having six carbon atoms, in the presence of catalyst composition comprising a zero-valent nickel and at least one bidentate phosphorus-containing ligand wherein the bidentate phosphorus-containing ligand gives acceptable results according to at least one protocol of the 2-Pentenenitrile Hydrocyanation Test Method.07-16-2009
20100145073N-SUBSTITUTED PYRROLIDONIUM IONIC LIQUIDS - This invention relates to compounds useful as ionic liquids that are based on an N-substituted pyrrolidinone and incorporate a pendant ammonium cation that is spaced from the pyrrolidone ring by a variable length linker, which compounds may be represented by the structure of the following Formula I:06-10-2010
20100145074FUNCTIONALIZED N-SUBSTITUTED PYRROLIDONIUM IONIC LIQUIDS - This invention relates to compounds useful as ionic liquids that are based on an N-substituted pyrrolidinone and incorporate a pendant ammonium cation that is spaced from the pyrrolidone ring by a variable length linker.06-10-2010
20110137048FUNCTIONALIZED N-SUBSTITUTED PYRROLIDONIUM IONIC LIQUIDS - This invention relates to compounds useful as ionic liquids that are based on an N-substituted pyrrolidinone and incorporate a pendant ammonium cation that is spaced from the pyrrolidone ring by a variable length linker.06-09-2011

Patent applications by Thomas Foo, Wilmington, DE US