ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,836, issued on April 8, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Beta-phosphonyl-enamine derivative and preparation method therefor" was invented by Jianping Zou (Suzhou, China), Dongliang Zhang (Suzhou, China), Chengkun Li (Suzhou, China), Guoyu Zhang (Suzhou, China) and Zekun Tao (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention discloses the preparation method of Beta-phosphonyl-enamine derivative. The preparation method comprising the following steps: dissolving the enamine derivative, organic phosphine compound, manganese acetate and potassium carbonate in the solvent, reacting at room temperature t...