US Patent Issued to CF PLUS CHEMICALS S.R.O., USTAV ORGANICKE CHEMIE A BIOCHEMIE AV CR, V.V.I., MIKROBIOLOGICKY USTAV AV CR, V.V.I. on May 6 for "Method for functionalization of an aromatic amino acid or a nucleobase" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,550, issued on May 6, was assigned to CF PLUS CHEMICALS S.R.O. (Brno, Czech Republic), USTAV ORGANICKE CHEMIE A BIOCHEMIE AV CR, V.V.I. (Prague) and MIKROBIOLOGICKY USTAV AV CR, V.V.I. (Prague).

"Method for functionalization of an aromatic amino acid or a nucleobase" was invented by Vaclav Matousek (Zliv, Czech Republic), Petr Beier (Prague) and Petr Novak (Dolni Brezany, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for functionalization of an aromatic amino acid or a nucleobase with a fluoroalkyl-containing moiety RF, wherein the aromatic amino acid is reacted in the presence of at least one reductant with at least one hyp...