US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Sept. 9 for "Substituted chromanes, analogs thereof, and methods of use and synthesis" (Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,149, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Substituted chromanes, analogs thereof, and methods of use and synthesis" was invented by Karl A. Scheidt (Evanston, Ill.), Rick C. Betori (Gurnee, Ill.) and Benjamin R. McDonald (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are chromane compounds, analogs thereof, and methods of their synthesis and use. The compounds may be synthesized by methods involving reductive annulations of arylidene malonates with unsaturated electrophiles using photoredox/Lewis acid cooperative catalysis. The compounds may be formulated in a pharmaceutical comp...