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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 23, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tomas Hudlicky, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Assignee:
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
564487 ; 549371 ; 549372 ; 549306 ; 549433 ; 549434 ; 549435 ; 549437 ; 549450 ; 549453 ; 549476 ; 564489 ; 564507 ; 552 10 ; 560196 ; 568845 ;
Abstract
Provided by the present invention is a process for the biocatalytic synthesis of optically pure sphingosines from achiral starting material. The stereoisomers of sphingosine are prepared from chiral arene diols using stereospecific reaction techniques to obtain the desired sphingosine or derivative thereof.