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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 07, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas Scholl, Visp, CH;
Barry Jackson, Glis, CH;
Assignee:
Lonza Ltd., Gampel/Valais, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
568348 ; 568346 ; 568381 ;
Abstract
A process for the production of squaric acid by halogenation either of pure 3-acetoxy-2-cyclobuten-1-one or of a distillation residue of diketene production containing 3-acetoxy-2-cyclobuten-1-one to a cyclobutenone of formula: ##STR1## and then hydrolysis of these cyclobutenones to squaric acid. The halogenated cyclobutenones are intermediate products in the process.