US Patent Issued to FMC, FMC IP TECHNOLOGY on May 20 for "Process for synthesis of 2-amino-5-chloro-N-,3-dimethylbenzamide" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,893, issued on May 20, was assigned to FMC Corp. (Philadelphia) and FMC IP TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Neuhausen, Switzerland).

"Process for synthesis of 2-amino-5-chloro-N-,3-dimethylbenzamide" was invented by Liang Chen (Shanghai), Yefeng Fan (Shanghai), Jianhua Mao (Shanghai) and Zhijian Xu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are novel methods of synthesizing 2-amino-5-chloro-N,3-dimethylbenzamide. Compounds prepared by the methods disclosed herein are useful for preparation of certain anthranilamide compounds that are of interest as insecticides, such as, for example, the insecticides chlorantraniliprole and cyantranil...