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. 7Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007