MUMBAI, India, Feb. 28 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517009383 A) filed by Zikani Therapeutics, Inc., Watertown, U.S.A., on Feb. 5, for 'synthetic processes and intermediates for preparing therapeutic azaketolides.'

Inventor(s) include Shi, Shuhao; Zhao, He; Mao, Jianmin; Li, Xiben; Wang, Wenying; Ichikawa, Yoshitaka; and Clark, Roger B.

The application for the patent was published on Feb. 28, under issue no. 09/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a process for producing compounds of formula I and/or formula I'. The present invention also relates to a process of selectively cleaving the main ring of a compound of formula IV ...