...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| 20120004310 | NON-PEPTIDE BDNF NEUROTROPHIN MIMETICS Methods and compounds for treating neurological and other disorders are provided. Included is the administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a compound having binding and/or modulation specificity for a TrkB receptor molecule.... | 01/05/2012 |
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| 20110313204 | CATALYTIC METHOD OF MANUFACTURE OF COMPOUNDS OF THE DIOL TYPE The invention relates to a catalytic method for the industrial production of a diol compound, such as 2-methyl-2-4-pentanediol, also called 2,4-hexylene glycol (HGL), from a β-hydroxy carbonyl compound, Formula (I), in particular diacetone alcohol (DAA).... | 12/22/2011 |
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| 20110184169 | PROCESS OF ISOLATING ENANTIOMER COMPONENT FROM ENANTIOMER MIXTURES BY PARTICLE-SIZE-CONTROLLED CRYSTALLIZATION The present invention discloses a process for isolating enantiomer components from a mixture of enantiomers through particle-size-controlled crystallization, comprising the steps of: (a) forming a solution of a mixture of enantiomers (R) and (S) in a solvent in the abse... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110092747 | Practical Method for Reducing Esters or Lactones Esters and lactones can be respectively reduced to alcohols and diols in the presence of the Group 8 (VIII) transition metal complex, base and hydrogen gas (H2). An extremely practical reduction method can be provided by preferable combinations of the Group 8... | 04/21/2011 |
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| 20110009648 | Carbonyl Asymmetric Alkylation This invention relates to processes and intermediates for the stereoselective alkylation of carbonyl groups. The invention in particular allows the stereoselective preparation of the antidepressant drug escitalopram. It has been found that boric or boronic acid derivati... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100240713 | AROMATIC AND HETEROAROMATIC COMPOUNDS USEFUL IN TREATING IRON DISORDERS This invention is directed to compounds of formula (I), wherein m, formula (II), R1, R2 and R3 are as defined herein, as a stereoisomer, enantiomer, tautomer thereof or mixtures thereof; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or ... | 09/23/2010 |
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| 20100105961 | CRYSTAL POLYMORPH OF FLUORENE DERIVATIVE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF A method of producing a crystal polymorph of 9,9-bis(4-(2-hydroxyethoxy)phenyl)fluorene, comprising the steps of
| 04/29/2010 |
| 20100063294 | ALCOHOL PRODUCTION METHOD BY REDUCING ESTER OF LACTONE WITH HYDROGEN Provided is an alcohol production method comprising the step of reducing an ester or a lactone with hydrogen to produce a corresponding alcohol without addition of a base compound by using, as a catalyst, a ruthenium complex represented by the following general formula ... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20080114185 | Method for Producing Unsaturated Vicinal Diol Compound A method for producing an unsaturated vicinal diol compound represented by the formula (2): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R are the same or different an... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20070213570 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING HALOGEN-SUBSTITUTED BENZENEDIMETHANOL A method for producing a halogen-substituted benzenedimethanol represented by the formula (2):
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| 20070055075 | Preparation of one intermediate for pyrethroids Methods for preparing 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorodimethylolbenzene, an intermediate for the preparation of pyrethroids, are disclosed. A method for preparing 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorodimethylolbenzene includes the reduction of tetrafluoroterephthalate. Various reduction processes are... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20050080278 | Production methods of citalopram and intermediates therefor The present invention provides a production method of citalopram and intermediates therefor. ... | 04/14/2005 |