US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Aug. 26 for "Enzymatic method for the production of L-glufosinate P-esters" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,410, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Enzymatic method for the production of L-glufosinate P-esters" was invented by Ludger Lautenschutz (Hanau, Germany), Steffen OBwald (Nidderau, Germany), Markus Potter (Muenster, Germany) and Jakob Muller (Haltern am See, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first enzymatic method for the production of an L-glufosinate P-ester includes reacting an L-glufosinate P-ester carbamoylate to give the corresponding L-glufosinate P-ester in the presence of a carbamoylase as a catalyzer. A second enzymatic method includes the enantioselective production of an ...