US Patent Issued to INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY on Feb. 17 for "Method for preparing primary amide compounds from secondary or tertiary amides" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,739, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY (Gwangju, South Korea).

"Method for preparing primary amide compounds from secondary or tertiary amides" was invented by Sun Woo Lee (Gwangju, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for preparing primary amides from tertiary or secondary amides substituted with various alkyl groups through a transamidation reaction without a metal catalyst in room-temperature conditions by adding ammonium carbonate ((NH4)2CO3), wherein the method is eco-friendly since various secondary and tertiary amides that are n...