Jun 20, 2011
Comins awarded 40th U.S. patent
Daniel L. Comins, professor of chemistry at North Carolina State University, has been awarded his 40th United States patent. Comins and his former Ph.D. student, Emilie Smith, were awarded U.S. patent number 7,888,512, titled “Synthesis of Nicotine Derivatives from Nicotine.” This work came from Comins’ laboratories as part of a program designed to synthesize nicotine…