Eastman Chemical Company

Other

Juanelle Little Lambert

Charles Michael Buchanan

Norma Lindsey Buchanan

Matthew Davie Wood

Jessica Dee Posey-Dowty

Chung-Ming Kuo

Michael Orlando Malcolm

Thelma Lee Watterson

Margaretha Soderqvist Lindblad

Susan Northrop Carty

Robert Thomas Hembre

Thauming Kuo

Michael Eugene Donelson

Bin Wang

Jozsef Szejtli

Kevin J Edgar

Lajos Szente

Maryna Grigorievna Gorbunova

Laszlo Jicsinszky

Shannon Eugene Large

Steven N Falling

Phillip Michael Cook

Daniel Wayne Dixon, Jr

Ricky Joseph Offerman

Kevin Joseph Edgar

This invention relates to novel compositions comprising regioselectively substituted cellulose esters. One aspect of the invention relates to processes for preparing regioselectively substituted cellulose esters from cellulose dissolved in ionic liquids. Another aspect of the invention relates to the utility of regioselectively substituted cellulose esters in applications such as protective and compensation films for liquid crystalline displays.

Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters produced in a carboxylated ionic liquid process and products produced therefrom

This invention provides cellulose ester interpolymers, and methods of oxidizing cellulose interpolymers and cellulose ester interpolymers. The invention also provides routes to access carboxylated cellulose ester derivatives with high acid numbers wherein the carboxyl group is attached directly to the cellulose backbone by a carbon-carbon bond. Through functionalization of an intermediate aldehyde, the corresponding cationic or zwitterionic cellulose ester derivatives can also be accessed. The interpolymers of the present invention have a number of end-use applications, for example, as binder resins in various types of coating compositions and as drug delivery agents.

Cellulose interpolymers and method of oxidation

Cellulose interpolymers and methods of oxidation

Ionic liquids and cellulose ester compositions and processes and apparatus for producing ionic liquids and cellulose esters. Cellulose esters can be produced by dissolving cellulose in carboxylated ionic liquids and thereafter contacting the cellulose solution with at least one acylating reagent. Cellulose esters produced via the present invention can comprise ester groups that originate from the carboxylated ionic liquid and/or the acylating reagent.

Cellulose esters and their production in carboxylated ionic liquids

The invention relates to methods of making carbohydrate and polyol esters suitable for use as plasticizers for polymer compositions. The invention also relates to plasticized polymer compositions comprising such carbohydrate and polyol esters. The invention also relates to articles prepared from such plasticized polymer compositions. The invention further relates to methods of using these compositions.

Carbohydrate esters and polyol esters as plasticizers for polymers, compositions and articles including such plasticizers and methods of using the same

This invention relates to new cyclodextrin derivatives, processes for producing these cyclodextrin derivatives, and inclusion complexes comprised of the new cyclodextrin derivatives and guest molecules, as well as methods of making such materials and related materials and methods of using the same.

Composition containing mixture of dihydroxybutane sulfonates

Cyclodextrin sulfonates, guest inclusion complexes methods of making the same and related materials

This invention relates to a new composition of matter which comprises hydroxybutenyl derivatives of cyclodextrins (HBenCD) or mixed ethers of cyclodextrins where at least one of the ether substituents is hydroxybutenyl (HBenRCD where R is an ether substituent other than hydroxybutenyl). This invention also relates to novel processes for the preparation of cyclodextrin ethers. This invention further relates to inclusion complexes formed between HBenCD or HBenRCD and guest molecules. Such inclusion complexes are useful in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food applications. Furthermore, this invention relates to the incorporation of HBenCD or HBenRCD or their inclusion complexes in thermoplastic materials, textiles or membranes.

Cyclodextrin ethers

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