MUMBAI, India, March 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202631024881 A) filed by Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Kolkata, West Bengal, on March 2, for '2-deoxy-d-glucose, sauropunol compounds and method of preparing the same.'

Inventor(s) include Joykrishna Maity; Abhinash Subba; Ratul Hore; Anirban Pradhan; and Sukhen Mandal.

The application for the patent was published on March 13, under issue no. 11/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A process for the preparation of 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) and its 3,6-anhydro derivatives including sauropunols from D-glucose is disclosed. The process comprises benzoylation of a D-glucose derived compound to form a p...