US Patent Issued to OSAKA UNIVERSITY, N.E. CHEMCAT on March 4 for "Hydrogenation reaction catalyst used to hydrogenate amide compound and method for producing amine compound using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,961, issued on March 4, was assigned to OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Suita, Japan) and N.E. CHEMCAT Corp. (Minato-ku, Japan).

"Hydrogenation reaction catalyst used to hydrogenate amide compound and method for producing amine compound using same" was invented by Kiyotomi Kaneda (Osaka, Japan), Takato Mitsudome (Osaka, Japan) and Yukio Takagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst, which can be used even under mild conditions and also has durability so as to enable repeated use while maintaining high activity, and with which a reduction reaction for converting an amide compound into an amine compound can be carried out, is provided by m...