US Patent Issued to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY on April 8 for "Method to selectively produce benzalaniline from a Schiff-base reaction involving aniline and benzaldehyde" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,787, issued on April 8, was assigned to KING SAUD UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Method to selectively produce benzalaniline from a Schiff-base reaction involving aniline and benzaldehyde" was invented by Taieb Aouak (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Ahmad Almalki (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Waseem Sharaf Saeed (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Wafa Nazal Alharbi (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Abdel-Basit Al-Odayni (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making benzalaniline, the method comprising: providing benzaldehyde and aniline; performing a condensation reaction using a solvent; extracting water from the condensation reaction...