Patents Represented by Attorney Avani C. Macaluso

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  • Method to increase the yield and improve purification of products from transaminase reactions
    Patent number: 8076106
    Abstract: A process for producing high yields of enantioselective amino acids and chiral amines by reacting a keto acid or ketone and an amino acid donor in the presence of a transaminase biocatalyst to produce a keto acid by-product and an amino acid or amine product. Further reacting the keto acid by-product with a peroxide to increase the yield of additional amino acid or amine product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Richmond Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: Ian Fotheringham, Nicholas Oswald