US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on May 27 for "Methods for practical synthesis of deuterated amino acids" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,361, issued on May 27, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Methods for practical synthesis of deuterated amino acids" was invented by Wei Wang (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a deuterated compound of formula (I), or a salt thereof, and methods for preparation thereof. The present disclosure may provide a mild, versatile organophotoredox method for the preparation of diverse, enantioenriched Alpha-deuterated Alpha-amino acids. In particular, the present disclosure may address the long-standing challenge of installing sterically demanding side cha...