US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL on Sept. 8 for "Direct aromatic carbon-oxygen and carbon-hydrogen bond functionalization via organic photoredox catalyst" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,169, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Direct aromatic carbon-oxygen and carbon-hydrogen bond functionalization via organic photoredox catalyst" was invented by Zibo Li (Chapel Hill, N.C.), David Nicewicz (Durham, N.C.) and Wei Chen (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, C-O, C-S, or C-N bond conversion and methods of synthesizing isotopically-labeled substituted arenes via direct carbon-halogen bond conversion. The invention also relates to anaerobic catalyst system...