Hyderabad: The Advanced Centre of Research in High Energy Materials (ACRHEM), a DRDO Centre of Excellence in University of Hyderabad (UoH), has been granted a patent for process for synthesis of an industrial burn rate enhancer derivative
The present patent entitled “Process for the Synthesis of 4-(dimethylsilane)-alkylferrocene” deals with the invention of a cost effective, simple and efficient synthetic process for the synthesis of 4-(dimethylsillane) butylferrocene, the UoH said on Wednesday.
It also offers a process for the synthesis of sructural variants of 4-(dimethylsilyl) alkylferrocene which can be easily scalable up to industrial scale, the University said.
The inventors of patent were Prof. Tushar Jana of School of Chemistry, UoH and adjunct faculty in ACRHEM, and Dr. Bikash Kumar Sikder, who worked as a post-doctoral fellow in ACRHEM with Prof. Jana.
Source: Telangana Today