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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:
Feb. 13, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 20, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michel M Chartrain, Westfield, NJ (US);
Shieh-Shung T Chen, Morganville, NJ (US);
George M Garrity, Westfield, NJ (US);
Brian Heimbuch, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Christopher Roberge, Clark, NJ (US);
Ali Shafiee, Westfield, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435118 ; 435117 ; 435122 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a process for the stereoselective reduction of phenylalkyl ketones to their corresponding (S)-hydroxy compounds. The process utilizes the novel microorganism Microbacterium MB 5614 to effectuate the chiral reduction. The present invention also provides said novel Microbacterium, which has been deposited with the ATCC and assigned the accession number ATCC 55557.