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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:
May. 21, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 11, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Chisso Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12P / ; C12N / ; C12N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
435106 ; 435195 ; 435196 ; 435197 ; 435198 ; 435280 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a process for producing optically active 3-aminobutanoic acid characterized in that it comprises an asymmetrically hydrolyzing racemic ester of 3-substituted aminobutanoic acid in the presence of a hydrolase, obtaining an optically active ester of 3-substituted aminobutanoic acid and an optically active 3-substituted aminobutanoic acid of an enantiomer of the ester, and treating the above ester represented by the formula (II): ##STR1## to remove the protecting group. In addition, the new ester intermediates represented by the above formula (II) are provided.