US Patent Issued to Evonik Operations on Oct. 7 for "Enzymatic method for the production of l-glufosinate p-alkyl esters" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,349, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Evonik Operations GmbH (Essen, Germany).

"Enzymatic method for the production of l-glufosinate p-alkyl 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: "An enzymatic method for the production of an L-glufosinate P-alkyl ester can be performed. This method is characterized by reacting an L-glufosinate P-alkyl ester carbamoylate to give the corresponding L-glufosinate P-alkyl ester. This is catalyzed by a carbamoylase. The L-glufosinate P-alkyl e...