Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals Inc. (fka RCPIQ)

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Luther

My thought on this was that Jonnie did much of his early patent work when he was Star Scientific and later Rock Creek. The synthesis patent was written to cover all of the significant tobacco alkaloids, and is still assigned to Rock Creek.

Attached is a description of the patent:

US Patent 08207346
Methods of synthesizing anatabine
Abstract: Anatabine is obtained by reacting benzophenoneimine with 3-aminomethyl pyridine to form benzylhydrylidene-pyridin-3-yl-methyl-amine. The benzylhydrylidene-pyridin-3-yl-methyl-amine is treated with a non-nucleophilic base and a … [more]
Inventors: Tom Thomas Puthiaparampil · Thomas Kanathkunn David · Muppala Sarveswara Raju
Assignees: Rock Creek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.