Appeal No. 1995-1539
Application No. 07/950,388
The claimed subject matter is directed to “[a] process
for making a composition of matter”. See claim 1. The
process comprises reacting a protected phenol with a base to
form a deprotected phenol (corresponding phenolate, e.g., 4
hydroxy styrene); reacting the resulting deprotected phenol
with a reagent in the presence of the base to form a
substituted 4-
hydroxystyre ne; and
chemically reacting
the resulting
substituted 4-
hydroxystyre ne,
without previous
distillation, to form a desired composition of matter. See
specification, pages 2-3, together with claim 1. The
protected phenol is defined as follows (specification, page 2,
line 31 to page 3, line 3):
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