Inventors:
Kenneth B. Taylor - Birmingham AL
Leo M. Hall - Homewood AL
Assignee:
The University of Alabama in Birmingham - AL
International Classification:
C07C10126, C07C10130, C07C10918, C07C12715, C07C12908, C12N 1500, C12N 120, C12N 500, C07B 5700
Abstract:
Novel octopine derivatives are disclosed which are useful for the selective growth of the agriculturally useful A. tumefaciens bacterium along with a synthetic method for their preparation. Also disclosed is a method of separating octopine derivatives from their diastereoisomers along with a method of selectively growing strains of the bacterium A. tumefaciens.