US Patent Issued to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on April 15 for "Glycosylation method involving trivalent iodine reagent" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,753, issued on April 15, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hubei, China).

"Glycosylation method involving trivalent iodine reagent" was invented by Qian Wan (Hubei, China), Lingkui Meng (Hubei, China), Jing Zeng (Hubei, China), Yulin Tan (Hubei, China), Yue Yin (Hubei, China) and Qin Zhang (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glycosylation method involving a trivalent iodine reagent, wherein a glycosyl donor (I) is activated in the presence of a trivalent iodine reagent and a transition metal catalyst, and then reacts with a acceptor (II) under acid catalysis or directly to obtain a glycosylation...