Patents by Inventor Frank Walter Muellner

Frank Walter Muellner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Asymmetric synthesis of chiral beta-amiNo acids
    Patent number: 5840961
    Abstract: The invention herein is directed to a process for the preparation of ethyl 3S-amino-4-pentynoate which involves treating 3-(trimethylsilyl)-2-propynal with L-phenylglycinol in toluene to produce .alpha.S-??3-(trimethylsilyl)-2-propynylidene amino!benzenethanol; reacting .alpha.S-??3-(trimethylsilyl)-2-propynylidene!amino!benzenethanol with BrZnCH.sub.2 CO.sub.2 t-Bu in THF/NMP to produce 1,1-dimethylethyl 3S-?(2-hydroxy-1S-phenylethyl)amino!-5-(trimethylsilyl)-4-pentynoate; reacting the 1,1-dimethylethyl 3S-?(2-hydroxy-1S-phenylethyl)amino!-5-(trimethylsilyl)-4-pentynoate with sodium periodate to form 1,1-dimethylethyl 3S-?(phenylmethylene)amino!-5-(trimethylsilyl)-4-pentynoate; hydrolyzing 1,1-dimethylethyl 3S-?(phenylmethylene)amino!-5-(trimethylsilyl)-4-pentynoate to produce 1,1-dimethylethyl 3S-amino-5-(trimethylsilyl)-4-pentynoate; transesterifying 1,1-dimethyl 3S-amino-5-(trimethylsilyl)-4-pentynoate and desilylating to produce ethyl 3S-amino-4-pentynoate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: G. D. Searle & Co.
    Inventors: James Richard Behling, Mark Laurence Boys, Kimberly Jo Cain-Janicki, Pierre-Jean Colson, Wendel William Doubleday, Joseph Edward Duran, Payman N. Farid, Carl Matthew Knable, Frank Walter Muellner, Sean Thomas Nugent, Ravindra S. Topgi