US Patent Issued to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY on Dec. 2 for "Chirality sensing with molecular click chemistry probes" (Virginia, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,293, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY (Washington).

"Chirality sensing with molecular click chemistry probes" was invented by Christian Wolf (Arlington, Va.), Fathima Yushra Thanzeel (Washington) and Kaluvu Balaraman (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an analytical method that includes providing a sample potentially containing a chiral analyte that can exist in stereoisomeric forms, and providing a probe selected from the group consisting of coumarin-derived Michael acceptors, dinitrofluoroarenes and analogs thereof, arylsulfonyl chlorides and analogs thereof, arylchl...