US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Jan. 27 for "Photoredox-catalyzed direct C-H functionalization of arenes" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,437, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Photoredox-catalyzed direct C-H functionalization of arenes" was invented by David Nicewicz (Durham, N.C.), Nathan Romero (Carrboro, N.C.), Kaila Margrey (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Nicholas Tay (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention generally relates to methods of making substituted arenes via direct C-H amination. More specifically, methods of making para- and ortho-substituted arenes via direct C-H amination are disclosed. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the pa...