Massachusetts Inventors Develop Quinidine-Based Catalyst

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | December 29, 2007 | Copyright

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 29 -- Hongming Li of Waltham, Mass., and Li Deng of Newton, Mass., have developed a quinine-based or quinidine-based catalyst.

An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "One aspect of the present invention relates to quinine-based and quinidine-based catalysts. Another aspect of the invention relates to a method of preparing a derivatized quinine-based or quinidine-based catalyst comprising reacting quinine or quinidine with base and a compound that has a suitable leaving group, and converting the ring methoxy group to a ...

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