ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,819, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The Scripps Research Institute (La Jolla, Calif.).
"Cu- and Ni-catalyzed decarboxylative borylation reactions" was invented by Phil Baran (San Diego), Chao Li (San Diego), Jie Wang (San Diego), Arnab K. Chatterjee (San Diego), Manoj Kumar (San Diego), Shan Yu (San Diego), Kristen Johnson (Santee, Calif.), Tian Qin (San Diego) and Ming Shang (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to methods of converting a carboxylic acid group in a compound, via a redox active ester, to a corresponding boronic ester by treatment with bis(pinacolato)diboron-alkyllithium complex in ...