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US 12,751,481 B2Granted
Smoking article including novel flavoring agent
AssigneeKt&G Corporation
InventorsChanggook Lee, Ick Joong Kim, In Beom Song, Ji Seob Woo, Kyung Bin Jung
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a smoking article including a novel flavoring agent, and more particularly, to a smoking article including a flavoring agent that is a novel compound which includes a flavoring compound-derived moiety in a basic skeleton, and in which a lactone compound, a sugar compound, and a flavoring compound are decomposed during thermal decomposition.
Claims17
A smoking article, comprising:
- a flavoring agent which is a compound represented by the following Formula 1:
- (In Formula 1, n is an integer of 1 or 2, M is selected from alkali metals and transition metals, R is a straight-chain or branched-chain alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and moiety A is a moiety derived from a flavoring compound having at least one of an aromatic ring, an aliphatic ring, and an aliphatic chain which have a hydroxyl group, wherein the hydroxyl group participates in a carbonate linking group
- and A′ corresponds to a flavoring compound except for the hydroxyl group).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.