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          Appeal No. 2001-0597                                                        
          Application 08/564,513                                                      



          wherein                                                                     
                    each R17 is independently a secondary or tertiary                 
                         substituted hydrocarbyl of 3 to 12 carbon                    
                         atoms; and                                                   
                    each R18 is independently H, X wherein X is Cl,                   
                         F or Br, a C1 to C12 alkyl, or OR8 wherein                   
                          R8 is C1 to C12 alkyl.                                      

                    The references relied upon by the examiner are:                   
          Billig et al. (Billig)          4,668,651          May 26, 1987             
          Baker, Michael J. et al. (Baker I), “Chelating Diphosphite                  
          Complexes of Nickel(0) and Platinum(0): Their Remarkable                    
          Stability and Hydrocyanation Activity,” J. Chem. Soc., Chem.                
          Commun., No. 12 (1991), pp. 803-04.                                         
          Baker, Michael J. Et al. (Baker II), “Chiral Aryl Diphosphites:             
          a New Class of Ligands for Hydrocyanation Catalysis,” J. Chem.              
          Soc., Chem. Commun., (1991), pp. 1292-93.                                   
















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