US Patent Issued to University Court of the University of St Andrews on Sept. 23 for "Manganese-catalysed hydrogenation of esters" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,200, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to University Court of the University of St Andrews (Fife, Great Britain).

"Manganese-catalysed hydrogenation of esters" was invented by Magnus Widegren (Fife, Great Britain) and Matthew Lee Clarke (Fife, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of catalytic hydrogenation and, more particularly, to methods of manganese-catalysed hydrogenation of esters to alcohols. Advantageously, where the esters are chiral, the hydrogenations proceed with high or complete stereochemical integrity."

The patent was filed on Jan. 8, 2019, under Application No. 16/96...