ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,700, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FIRMENICHI SA (Satigny, Switzerland).
"Hydrogenation of imines with RU complexes" was invented by Lionel Saudan (Satigny, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Describes herein are methods of using ruthenium complexes in base-free hydrogenation processes for the reduction of imines into the corresponding amines."
The patent was filed on July 30, 2020, under Application No. 17/601,296.
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