US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on Nov. 11 for "Visible-light mediated organophotoredox catalytic deuteration of aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,775, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Visible-light mediated organophotoredox catalytic deuteration of aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes" was invented by Wei Wang (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods for preparing a deuterated aldehyde using with a photocatalyst and a hydrogen atom transfer agent in a H2O free solvent comprising D2O and an organic solvent under an inert gas. The methods may be used to convert a wide variety of aldehydes (e.g., aryl, alkyl, or alkenyl aldehydes) to C-1 deuterated aldehydes under mild react...