Appeal No. 1997-2797
Application 08/199,286
unsaturated compounds. This appealed subject matter is
adequately illustrated by independent claims 1 and 5, a copy
of which is appended to this decision.
The following references are relied upon by the examiner
as evidence of obviousness:
Regitz, Methods of Organic Chemistry, Vol. E1, pgs. 636-639
(1982).
March, Advanced Organic Chemistry, 3rd ed., pg. 847 (1985).
Claims 1-4 and 7 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over Regitz.
Claims 5 and 6 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. § 103 as
being unpatentable over March.
OPINION
Neither of the above noted rejections can be sustained.
The Section 103 Rejection Over Regitz
The process defined by appealed claim 1 distinguishes
over the process of Regitz via the claim recitation "wherein
the chlorination is carried out in the presence of an alkali
metal hydroxide as hydrogen chloride acceptor and the chlorine
and said base are fed to the reaction mixture concurrently but
separately at the rates at which they are consumed, such that
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