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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7329402 | Methods of imaging and treatment Novel ultrasound methods comprising administering to a patient a targeted vesicle composition which comprises vesicles comprising a lipid, protein or polymer, encapsulating a gas, in combination with a targeting ligand, and scanning the patient using ultrasound. The... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7294278 | Method for oxygenating wastewater A method and apparatus creates gas-enriched fluid that is used to treat wastewater. In one embodiment, the wastewater is withdrawn from a supply of wastewater to be treated, and the wastewater is delivered in an atomized manner to a vessel pressurized with gas to fo... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7122060 | Phosphate fluorosurfactants for use in carbon dioxide A method of removing water from a composition of matter comprises contacting a first composition of matter comprising water with a second composition of matter comprising: (1) at least one surfactant comprising at least one phosphate group and (2) a solvent comprisi... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7105151 | Oxygen delivery agents and uses for the same The present invention describes, inter alia, oxygen delivery agents or blood substitutes comprising a fluorinated gas and a stabilizing material, uses for the oxygen delivery agents or blood substitutes, and apparatus for making and delivering the oxygen delivery ag... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7083572 | Therapeutic delivery systems Targeted therapeutic delivery systems comprising gas- or gaseous precursor-filled lipid microspheres comprising a therapeutic are described. Methods for employing such microspheres in therapeutic delivery applications are also provided. Targeted therapeutic d... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7077976 | Phosphonamide and phosphonamide blend compositions to treat water The invention is a water treatment composition comprising at least one phosphonamide and blends thereof and a method to treat water. As phosphonamides are generally odorless, and typically solids, phosphonamide and phosphonamide blend compositions are generally odor... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7078015 | Ultrasound imaging and treatment Methods of and apparatus for preparing temperature activated gaseous precursor-filled liposomes are described. Gaseous precursor-filled liposomes prepared by these methods are particularly usefull for example, in ultrasonic imaging applications and in therapeutic dr... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7008535 | Apparatus for oxygenating wastewater A method and apparatus creates gas-enriched fluid that is used to treat wastewater. In one embodiment, the wastewater is withdrawn from a supply of wastewater to be treated, and the wastewater is delivered in an atomized manner to a vessel pressurized with gas to fo... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6998107 | Composition comprising low density microspheres Low density microspheres, methods for preparing same, and use of same as contrast agents are described. The microspheres have a void having a volume that comprises at least about 75% of the total volume of the microspheres, and which contains a gas or the vapor of a... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6645904 | Aminophosphonium compounds The present invention relates to compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which one, two or three of the radicals R1, R2, R3 and R4 are ##STR2## where m and n are an integer from 1 to 10, R5, R6 | 11/11/2003 |
| 6613945 | Resolution method for a racemic mixture of aldehydes The invention concerns a resolution method for a racemic mixture of aldehyde of formula (I). ##STR1## The aldehydes of formula I are useful in their enantiomeric form or their racemic form for preparing transition metal complexes useful as catalysts ... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6576161 | Polyphosphate ester morpholides, mixtures thereof, and thermoplastic resin compositions containing polyphosphate ester morpholides as flame retardants The present invention relates to polyphosphate ester morpholides, compositions comprising mixtures thereof and thermoplastic resin compositions containing the polyphosphate ester morpholide composition as a flame retardant. The flame retardant composition... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6465643 | Aminophosphonium compounds The present invention relates to compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which one, two or three of the radicals R1, R2, R3 and R4 are ##STR2## where m and n are an integer from 1 to 10, R5, R6 | 10/15/2002 |
| 5472956 | Phosphoramidates useful as antitumor agents Cyclophosphamide analogs are provided of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R1 and R2 are each (C2 -C6)alkyl, substituted with a leaving group such as halo or alkylsulfonyl, R3 and R4 ... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5413994 | Pharmaceutical compositions containing di-phosphonic acid amidines Compounds of formula I ##STR1## wherein R, R1, R2 and q are as defined in the description, have valuable pharmacological properties and are especially effective as calcium metabolism regulators. They are prepared in a manner kno... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5359064 | Salts of triazine derivatives with oxygenated acids of phosphorus This invention relates to salts of triazine derivatives with oxygenated as of phoshporus, having general formula (I): ##STR1## obtained by salification, with an acid containing phosphorus, of polycondensates of 2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine. The com... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5350848 | Triazinylphosphonic acids and their use in self-extinguishing polymeric compositions Triazinylphosphonic acids of general formula (I): ##STR1## obtained by subsequent condensation reaction of a cyanuric halide with a osphite and with amines, and then by hydrolysis reaction of the intermediate thus obtained; The compounds of general f... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5344930 | Fluorine and phosphorous-containing amphiphilic molecules with surfactant properties Compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## are useful as surfactants in the preparation of fluorocarbon emulsions, which can be used as oxygen-carrying blood substitutes, and for many other therapeutic and diagnostic applications. They are further us... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5296598 | Derivatives of 2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazinyl-6-phosphonic acid Derivatives of triazinylphosphonic acid having the general formula (I): ##STR1## obtained by means of the reaction of condensation of a cyanuric halide w an ester of phosphorous acid and subsequent reaction of substitution with a polyamine and an am... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5103007 | Lipids Lipid derivatives represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R1 stands for an optionally substituted higher alkyl group, R2 stands for an optionally substituted lower alkyl group or an optionally substituted nitrogen-containin... | 04/07/1992 |
| 5081245 | Carboxylic acid derivatives A compound represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group; R1 represents a higher alkyl group which may be substituted; R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, a lower alkano... | 01/14/1992 |
| 4966855 | New redox indicators The invention provides new redox indicators and uses for these redox compounds (I): ##STR1## Wherein X is oxygen or sulphur, R1 is julolidine or tetrahydroquinoline, which can carry an alkyl radical on the nitrogen atom which, in turn... | 10/30/1990 |
| 4956467 | Nucleophilic tertiary organophosphines Novel nucleophilic tertiary organophosphines and the specific cleavage of peptide bonds by nucleophilic tertiary organophosphines. This invention is of particular utility in providing chemical agents for use in the cleavage of proteins and the determinati... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4845084 | Phosphate derivatives of substituted butyl guanines, antiviral compositions containing them, and methods of treating viral infections with them Phosphate derivatives of substituted butyl guanines which have antiviral activity against DNA viruses, such as herpes viruses and HTLV-III.... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4486421 | Insecticidal phosphorus derivatives of 4-pyrimidinols Phosphorus derivatives of 4-pyrimidinols which possess insecticidal properties and especially both systemic and foliar activity for plants against insect pests.... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4486422 | Insecticidal phosphorus derivatives of 5-pyrimidinols Phosphorus derivatives of 5-pyrimidinols which possess insecticidal properties and especially both systemic and foliar activity for plants against insect pests.... | 12/04/1984 |
| 4353731 | Amide and hydrazide derivatives of N-trifluoroacetyl-N-phosphonomethylglycine This disclosure relates to alkyl N-trifluoroacetyl-N-phosphonomethylglycine amide and hydrazide derivatives, to herbicidal compositions containing same and to the herbicidal use thereof. These amide and hydrazide derivatives are useful as pre-emergent and... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4318845 | Alkanolamine esters of 1,1'-biphenyl-2,2'-diyl-and alkylidene-1,1'-biphenyl-2,2'-diyl-cyclic phosphites The title compounds are prepared by reacting alkylated 1,1'-biphenyl-2,2'-diol or alkylated 2,2'-alkylidene-bis-phenol with phosphorus trichloride in an organic solvent and then reacting the intermediate phosphorochlorodite with an alkanolamine. Said phos... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4144394 | Phosphoroamidates Compounds of the formulas ##STR1## WHEREIN: X represents oxygen or sulfur; Z represents the residue of a hydroxyl-containing moiety; R1 and R2 in formula (1) may be the same or different and individually represent alkyl, cycloalkyl o... | 03/13/1979 |
| 4124400 | Flame retardant polymer compositions Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein: Z represents a radical selected from the group consisting of alkyl or aryl radicals; R1 and R2 may be the same or different and individually represent a radical selected from the group ... | 11/07/1978 |
| 4086302 | Phosphoroamidates Compounds of the formulas ##STR1## WHEREIN: X represents oxygen or sulfur; Z represents the residue of a hydroxyl-containing moiety; R1 and R2 in formula (1) may be the same or different and individually represent alkyl, cycloalkyl o... | 04/25/1978 |
| 4062909 | Phosphoroamidates Compounds of the formulas ##STR1## WHEREIN: X represents oxygen or sulfur; Z represents the residue of a hydroxyl-containing moiety; R1 and R2 in formula (1) may be the same or different and individually represent alkyl, cycloalkyl o... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4059432 | Plant growth regulator A plant growth regulator comprising as an active ingredient a compound having a novel 2-sulfonyloxyethylphosphonic or -thionophosphonic acid skeleton of the formula ##STR1## and a process for the production of the above compound. A method for re... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4034022 | Phosphoric esters of polyfluorinated alcohols, and their preparation Phosphoric esters of polyfluorinated alcohols are disclosed comprising at least one isomer of phosphorous esters of polyfluorinated alcohols, or one of the derivatives thereof, said esters and derivatives thereof corresponding to the general formula: ... | 07/05/1977 |
| 3981870 | Plant growth regulant carbamoylphosphonates This disclosure teaches a method for employing novel carbamoylphosphonates such as ammonium ethyl carbamoylphosphonate, ammonium isopropyl carbamoylphosphonate and ammonium allyl carbamoylphosphonate to regulate the growth rate of plants.... | 09/21/1976 |
| 3977860 | Herbicidal compositions and methods employing esters of N-phosphonomethylglycine N-phosphonomethylglycine and novel derivatives thereof useful as phytotoxicants or herbicides.... | 08/31/1976 |
| 3952074 | Carbamoylphosphonates This disclosure teaches a method for employing novel carbamoylphosphonates such as ammonium ethyl carbamolyphosphonate, ammonium isopropyl carbamoylphosphonate and ammonium allyl carbamoylphosphonate to regulate the growth rate of plants.... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3943154 | Acylamides of beta-cyano-ethenesulfonyl substituted aminoarenes Acylamides of ଲ-X-ethenesulfonyl substituted aminoarenes in which the acyl moiety is an organic sulfonic, sulfinic or sulfenic acid group; an organic phosphoric, thiophosphoric, phosphonic, thiophosphonic, or phosphinic acid group; or the sulfinyl g... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3940458 | 1-Carbamoyl vinyl phosphates 1-Carbamoylvinyl phosphates and phosphonates are novel compounds which provide an effective means for controlling insects.... | 02/24/1976 |