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 Class   554ORGANIC COMPOUNDS -- PART OF THE CLASS 532-570 SERIES
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 This Class 554 is considered to be an integral part of Class 260 (see the Class 260 schedule for the position of this Class in schedule hierarchy). This Class retains all pertinent definitions and class lines of Class 260.
 
             ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (CLASS 532, SUBCLASS 1)
  1           . (1 indent ) Fatty compounds having an acid moiety which contains the carbonyl of a carboxylic acid, salt, ester, or amide group bonded directly to one end of an acyclic chain of at least seven (7) uninterrupted carbons, wherein any additional carbonyl in the acid moiety is (1) part of an aldehyde or ketone group, (2) bonded directly to a noncarbon atom which is between the additional carbonyl and the chain, or (3) attached indirectly to the chain via ionic bonding
  2           .. (2 indent ) With preservative or stabilizer
  3           ... (3 indent ) Oxygen containing hetero ring in preservative or stabilizer
  4           ... (3 indent ) Phosphorus containing preservative or stabilizer
  5           ... (3 indent ) Nitrogen containing preservative or stabilizer
  6           ... (3 indent ) Sulfur containing preservative or stabilizer
  7           ... (3 indent ) Phenolic preservative or stabilizer
  8           .. (2 indent ) Extraction directly from animal or plant source material (e.g., recovery from garbage, fish offal, slaughter house waste, whole fish, olive fruit, etc.)
  9           ... (3 indent ) Legume, nut, or seed source material (e.g., peanut, soya bean, rice bran, etc.)
  10           .... (4 indent ) Fatty or sugar containing treating agent utilized (e.g., miscella, molasses, lecithin, cocoa butter used; heated cashew oil used to extract more oil from cashew nuts; using soap as emulsifier, etc.)
  11           .... (4 indent ) Carbon dioxide, peroxy, sulfur, nitrogen, or metal containing treating agent utilized
  12           .... (4 indent ) Organic solvent extraction
  13           .... (5 indent ) Halogen or oxygen in the solvent (e.g., carbon tetrachloride, ethanol, etc.)
  14           ..... (6 indent ) Plural diverse solvents utilized together or sequentially (e.g., solvent is mixture of acetone and hexane, ethyl and isopropyl alcohols, etc.)
  15           .... (5 indent ) Steam or water added
  16           .... (5 indent ) Vacuum or pressure utilized (e.g., normally gaseous hydrocarbon solvent kept liquid under pressure, etc.)
  17           .... (4 indent ) Steam or water added or vacuum utilized
  18           ... (3 indent ) Fish liver source material
  19           ... (3 indent ) Sulfur, silicon, nitrogen, or metal containing treating agent utilized (e.g., salt or brine, clay, lime, etc.)
  20           ... (3 indent ) Organic solvent extraction
  21           .... (4 indent ) Halogen or oxygen in the solvent (e.g., trichloroethylene, alcohol, etc.)
  22           ... (3 indent ) Vacuum utilized
  23           ... (3 indent ) Steam or water added (e.g., wet rendering, etc.)
  24           .. (2 indent ) Chemical modification of oils to improve their drying properties and products thereof
  25           ... (3 indent ) Polymerization process and product thereof (e.g., thermal polymerization, oxidative polymerization, etc.)
  26           .... (4 indent ) Additional organic compound utilized (e.g., as catalyst, promoter, etc.)
  27           .... (5 indent ) The additional organic compound is an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon monomer (e.g., butadiene, cyclopentadiene, styrene, etc.)
  28           .... (4 indent ) Inorganic material utilized
  29           .... (4 indent ) Purification or recovery
  30           ... (3 indent ) Esterification or molecular rearrangement (e.g., intra- or inter-esterification, etc.)
  31           ... (3 indent ) Dehydration or carbon to carbon unsaturation formation (e.g., dehydrating hydroxylated fatty acids or oils, forming conjugated unsaturation by dehydrogenation, dehalogenation, dehydrohalogenation, etc.)
  32           .... (4 indent ) Heavy metal containing compound utilized (e.g., as catalyst, promoter, etc.)
  33           .... (4 indent ) Sulfur containing compound utilized
  34           .... (4 indent ) Group IA or IIA light metal containing compound utilized
  35           .. (2 indent ) The carbonyl is part of a carboxamide group (i.e., fatty acid amides)
  36           ... (3 indent ) Additional carbonyl in the acid moiety
  37           .... (4 indent ) Noncarbon atom bonded directly to the additional carbonyl
  38           ... (3 indent ) Heavy metal or aluminum containing
  39           ... (3 indent ) Boron, silicon, selenium, or tellurium containing
  40           ... (3 indent ) Phosphorus containing
  41           .... (4 indent ) Additional nitrogen containing
  42           ... (3 indent ) Sulfur containing
  43           .... (4 indent ) The sulfur is bonded directly to the carboxamide nitrogen or to an additional nitrogen (e.g., sulfonamide, sulfamic acid, etc.)
  44           .... (4 indent ) Sulfoxy containing
  45           .... (5 indent ) Ring bonded directly to the sulfoxy
  46           .... (5 indent ) Additional nitrogen containing
  47           ..... (6 indent ) Containing -C(=O)O- group (e.g., carboxylic acid, ester, salt, etc.)
  48           ..... (6 indent ) Additional carboxamide containing
  49           .... (5 indent ) The carboxamide nitrogen and a -S(=O)(=O)-O-X group attached to each other by an acyclic chain which consists of carbons, wherein X is hydrogen or a metal (e.g., taurides, etc.)
  50           .... (5 indent ) Sulfoxy in acid moiety
  51           ... (3 indent ) Additional nitrogen containing
  52           .... (4 indent ) Quaternary ammonium containing
  53           .... (4 indent ) Amidino or guanidino containing
  54           .... (4 indent ) Cyano or hydrazino containing
  55           .... (4 indent ) Halogen or additional oxygen containing (e.g., isocyanate containing, etc.)
  56           .... (5 indent ) Additional carboxamide group containing (e.g., carbamates, ureas, etc.)
  57           ..... (6 indent ) Plural additional carboxamide groups containing
  58           ..... (6 indent ) Additional nitrogen or -C(=O)O- group containing
  59           .... (5 indent ) Containing -C(=O)O- group
  60           .... (5 indent ) Nitro containing or plural oxyalkylene groups bonded directly to each other
  61           ... (3 indent ) Additional oxygen containing (e.g., amides of ricinoleic acid, etc.)
  62           .... (4 indent ) Halogen containing
  63           .... (4 indent ) Containing -C(=O)O- group
  64           .... (4 indent ) Plural oxyalkylene groups bonded directly to each other
  65           .... (4 indent ) Oxygen bonded directly to a ring
  66           .... (4 indent ) Hydroxyalkyl substituent on the amido nitrogen
  67           ... (3 indent ) Halogen containing
  68           ... (3 indent ) Processes
  69           .... (4 indent ) Amidation
  70           .... (4 indent ) Purification or recovery
  71           .. (2 indent ) Heavy metal containing (e.g., As, Cr, Mn, Sb, V, etc.)
  72           ... (3 indent ) Titanium, zirconium, or cerium containing (Ti, Zr, or Ce)
  73           ... (3 indent ) Lead or tin containing (Pb or Sn)
  74           ... (3 indent ) Iron, cobalt, nickel, copper, silver, or gold containing (Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, or Au)
  75           ... (3 indent ) Zinc, cadmium, or mercury containing (Zn, Cd, or Hg)
  76           .. (2 indent ) Aluminum containing
  77           .. (2 indent ) Boron, selenium, or silicon containing
  78           .. (2 indent ) Phosphorus containing
  79           ... (3 indent ) Glycerophosphates (e.g., phosphatidic acids, phosphatidyl inositol, etc.)
  80           .... (4 indent ) Nitrogen containing (e.g., cephalins, lecithins, etc.)
  81           .... (5 indent ) Halogen or sulfur containing
  82           .... (5 indent ) Processes of forming the compound
  83           .... (5 indent ) Purification on recovery
  84           ... (3 indent ) Nitrogen containing
  85           .. (2 indent ) Sulfur containing
  86           ... (3 indent ) Processes utilizing sulfur chloride
  87           ... (3 indent ) Processes utilizing elemental sulfur
  88           ... (3 indent ) Sulfoxy containing (e.g., sulfones, etc.)
  89           .... (4 indent ) Twitchell or Pfeilring reagent (i.e., product of sulfonation of fatty material in the presence of an aromatic hydrocarbon or phenol)
  90           .... (4 indent ) The sulfoxy is in the alcohol moiety (e.g., sulfate esters of fatty acid monoglycerides, etc.)
  91           .... (5 indent ) Nitrogen bonded directly to carbon in the alcohol moiety
  92           .... (5 indent ) Having -S(=O)(=O)-O-X attached indirectly to the single bonded oxygen of the carboxyl group by a single carbon or a chain consisting of carbons, which chain or carbon may include a ring, wherein X is hydrogen or a cation (e.g., isethionates, etc.)
  93           .... (5 indent ) Purification or recovery
  94           .... (4 indent ) Nitrogen containing (e.g., sulfonamide containing, etc.)
  95           .... (4 indent ) Carbocyclic ring in the acid moiety
  96           .... (4 indent ) Carbon bonded directly to -S(=O)(=O)OH or to -O-S(=O)(=O)OH, wherein H may be replaced by a cation or by an ester forming group (e.g., sulfonic acid sulfate monoester, etc.)
  97           .... (5 indent ) Metal salt
  98           .... (5 indent ) Processes utilizing anhydrous sulfur trioxide (e.g., in gaseous form, in sulfur dioxide solution, etc.)
  99           .... (5 indent ) Processes of sulfonating in the presence of lower carboxylic acid, anhydride, acid halide, or phosphorus containing material
  100           .... (5 indent ) Purification or recovery
  101           ... (3 indent ) Thioether, thiol, or mercaptide containing
  102           .... (4 indent ) Plural sulfurs containing
  103           .. (2 indent ) Nitrogen containing
  104           ... (3 indent ) Plural nitrogens containing (e.g., guanidine, hydrazine, etc.)
  105           .... (4 indent ) Additional oxygen containing
  106           .... (5 indent ) The additional oxygen is in a carboxamide, carbamate, or urea group (e.g., chloramphenicol palmitate, etc.)
  107           .... (5 indent ) The additional oxygen is in a -C(=O)O- group
  108           ... (3 indent ) Additional oxygen containing (e.g., hydroxy, ether, etc.)
  109           .... (4 indent ) Plural additional oxygens containing
  110           .... (5 indent ) The additional oxygens are in a -C(=O)O- group
  111           .... (5 indent ) Nitro or carboxamide containing
  112           .... (4 indent ) Carboxamide, cyano, or isocyanate containing
  113           ... (3 indent ) Cyano containing
  114           ... (3 indent ) Processes
  115           .. (2 indent ) Additional carbonyl in the acid moiety (e.g., oiticica oil, licanic acid, etc.)
  116           ... (3 indent ) Benzene ring in the acid moiety
  117           ... (3 indent ) Alicyclic ring in the acid moiety (e.g., prostaglandin analogs, etc.)
  118           .... (4 indent ) Oxygen double bonded directly to the ring (i.e., the carbon of the additional carbonyl is part of the ring; e.g., homo prostaglandins, etc.)
  119           .... (5 indent ) Additional oxygen bonded directly to the ring
  120           ... (3 indent ) Hydrogen bonded directly to the additional carbonyl (i.e., aldehyde containing)
  121           ... (3 indent ) The additional carbonyl is in a -C(=O)O- group
  122           .... (4 indent ) Plural additional carbonyls in the acid moiety
  123           ... (3 indent ) Halogen or plural additional carbonyls in the acid moiety
  124           .. (2 indent ) Processes of forming the compound
  125           ... (3 indent ) Geometric isomer formation (e.g., cis-trans, syn-anti, etc.)
  126           ... (3 indent ) Double bond shift (e.g., conjugation, etc.)
  127           ... (3 indent ) Forming carbon to carbon unsaturation (i.e., forming a double or triple bond)
  128           ... (3 indent ) Carbonylation, carbonation, or hydroformylation
  129           .... (4 indent ) Phosphorus or sulfur containing material utilized
  130           .... (4 indent ) Halogen containing material utilized
  131           .... (4 indent ) Group VIII metal containing material utilized
  132           ... (3 indent ) Oxidation
  133           .... (4 indent ) Ozone utilized
  134           .... (4 indent ) Molecular oxygen utilized as oxidizing agent
  135           .... (5 indent ) Heavy metal containing catalyst utilized
  136           ..... (6 indent ) Cobalt containing catalyst
  137           ..... (6 indent ) Manganese containing catalyst
  138           .... (4 indent ) Peroxy containing material utilized as oxidizing agent
  139           .... (4 indent ) Nitric acid utilized as oxidizing agent
  140           .... (4 indent ) Chromium containing compound utilized as oxidizing agent (e.g., chromic acid, chromosulfuric acid, etc.)
  141           ... (3 indent ) Catalytic hydrogenation
  142           .... (4 indent ) Including esterification or inter-esterification (e.g., prior to, simultaneously with, or after hydrogenation, etc.)
  143           .... (4 indent ) Conversion of a functional group in the course of hydrogenation (e.g., hydrogenolysis, etc.)
  144           .... (4 indent ) Plural hydrogenation steps or continuous hydrogenation process
  145           .... (4 indent ) Selective hydrogenation (e.g., of polyunsaturated to monounsaturated, of acetylenic to ethylenic compound, etc.)
  146           .... (4 indent ) Plural heavy metal containing materials utilized
  147           .... (4 indent ) Additional treating agent utilized (e.g., as catalyst carrier or promoter, oil deodorizer, oil solvent, pretreatment agent, oil filtering aid, etc.)
  148           ... (3 indent ) Oxygen containing hetero ring reactant (e.g., succinic anhydride, etc.)
  149           .... (4 indent ) Oxirane containing reactant
  150           ... (3 indent ) Organic halogen containing reactant
  151           .... (4 indent ) The reactant contains carbonyl bonded directly to the halogen
  152           .... (4 indent ) Another reactant is a carboxylic acid salt
  153           .... (4 indent ) Metal containing material utilized (e.g., Grignard reagent, Friedel Crafts catalyst, etc.)
  154           ... (3 indent ) Nitrogen, phosphorus, or sulfur containing reactant
  155           .... (4 indent ) Inorganic sulfur containing reactant (e.g., utilizing sulfuric acid to decompose soap, etc.)
  156           ... (3 indent ) Group IA or IIA metal containing reactant (e.g., forming a soap from fat and alkali, i.e., saponification, etc.)
  157           .... (4 indent ) Organic material, in addition to a fatty material, utilized or plural diverse fatty materials utilized (e.g., as solvent, reaction promoter, etc.)
  158           .... (4 indent ) Inorganic boron, halogen, phosphorus, silicon, sulfur, elemental metal, or additional metal containing compound utilized (e.g., utilizing inorganic agent for "salting out", bleaching, purifying, etc.)
  159           ... (3 indent ) Inorganic halogen containing reactant
  160           ... (3 indent ) Hydrolyzing fatty material with water only
  161           ... (3 indent ) Reactant contains -C(=O)O- group (e.g., carboxylic acid, salt, anhydride, etc.)
  162           .... (4 indent ) Bonding a hydrocarbyl group to the -C(=O)O- containing reactant
  163           .... (4 indent ) The -C(=O)O- is part of an ester group
  164           .... (5 indent ) Another reactant is a carboxylic acid anhydride (i.e., contains -C(=O)-O-C(=O)-)
  165           .... (5 indent ) Another reactant is a carboxylic acid
  166           ..... (6 indent ) Polycarboxylic or hydroxy acid (i.e., containing additional -C(=O)OH or an -OH group)
  167           .... (5 indent ) Another reactant contains alcoholic or phenolic hydroxy (e.g., methy ricinoleate, etc.)
  168           ..... (6 indent ) Plural alcoholic or phenolic hydroxys (e.g., glycerol, castor oil, etc.)
  169           .... (5 indent ) Molecular rearrangement of the acid moieties of glyceride esters (e.g., random or directed low temperature intra- or inter-esterification of fats, oils, etc.)
  170           .... (4 indent ) Another reactant contains alcoholic or phenolic hydroxy
  171           .... (5 indent ) Ring in the hydroxy containing reactant
  172           .... (5 indent ) Plural hydroxys in the hydroxy containing reactant
  173           ..... (6 indent ) Glycerol
  174           .. (2 indent ) Esterification of fatty material to reduce the amount of free fatty acid or to facilitate separation of constituents
  175           .. (2 indent ) Purification, recovery, deodorizing, decolorizing or color stabilizing
  176           ... (3 indent ) Metal containing contaminant removal (e.g., of colloidal elemental metal catalyst, of metal ions, etc.)
  177           ... (3 indent ) Recovering from industrial waste materials (e.g., foots, textile treating liquors, spent sorbents, filter cake, sewage, sludge, soapstock, etc.)
  178           .... (4 indent ) Metal oxide, hydroxide, carbonate, or bicarbonate treating agent
  179           .... (4 indent ) Organic or inorganic acid or anhydride treating agent (e.g., carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, etc.)
  180           .... (4 indent ) Hydrocarbon or halohydrocarbon treating agent
  181           ... (3 indent ) Oxidation of impurities
  182           .... (4 indent ) Peroxy containing treating agent
  183           .... (4 indent ) Air, gaseous oxygen, or halogen containing treating agent
  184           ... (3 indent ) Nitrogen containing compound treating agent
  185           .... (4 indent ) The treating agent is organic
  186           .... (5 indent ) Urea or nitro group containing
  187           ... (3 indent ) Sulfur containing treating agent
  188           .... (4 indent ) Sulfuric or sulfurous acid treating agent
  189           .... (4 indent ) The treating agent is inorganic
  190           ... (3 indent ) Boron or phosphorus containing treating agent
  191           ... (3 indent ) Sorbent material utilized (e.g., activated carbon, decolorizing clay, bentonite, synthetic resin, etc.)
  192           .... (4 indent ) And utilizing Group IA or IIA metal oxide, hydroxide, or carbonate treating agent (e.g., saponification, neutralization, etc.)
  193           .... (4 indent ) Removal of fatty material from the sorbent or solvent utilized
  194           ... (3 indent ) Heavy metal or aluminum containing treating agent
  195           ... (3 indent ) Group IA or IIA light metal containing treating agent (i.e., Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, or Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) [e.g., carbonates, etc.]
  196           .... (4 indent ) Silicon containing treating agent (e.g., sodium silicate, etc.)
  197           .... (4 indent ) Inorganic halogen containing treating agent
  198           .... (4 indent ) Organic treating agent added to or included with fatty material
  199           .... (5 indent ) The organic treating agent contains oxygen
  200           ..... (6 indent ) The treating agent is a carboxylic acid, anhydride, or salt thereof
  201           .... (4 indent ) Water or steam added
  202           .... (4 indent ) The treating agent is a metal oxide or hydroxide (e.g., lye, lime, caustic alkali, etc.)
  203           .... (5 indent ) Centrifugal separation
  204           ... (3 indent ) Carboxylic acid, anhydride, or acid halide treating agent
  205           ... (3 indent ) Gas or vapor treating agent (e.g., steam, carbon dioxide, hydrocarbon vapors, etc.)
  206           ... (3 indent ) Organic solvent utilized
  207           .... (4 indent ) Water utilized (e.g., solvent-solvent extraction, etc.)
  208           .... (4 indent ) With crystallization or precipitation (e.g., separation according to degree of saturation, etc.)
  209           .... (5 indent ) Halogen containing or hydrocarbon solvent
  210           .... (4 indent ) Halogen containing or hydrocarbon solvent
  211           ... (3 indent ) Crystallization or precipitation (e.g., separation according to degree of saturation, etc.)
  212           ... (3 indent ) Organic treating agent
  213           .. (2 indent ) Additional oxygen in the acid moiety (e.g., hydroxystearic acid, etc.)
  214           ... (3 indent ) Alicyclic ring in the acid moiety (e.g., prostaglandin analog, etc.)
  215           .... (4 indent ) Benzene ring in the acid moiety
  216           .... (5 indent ) Plural oxygens bonded directly to the alicyclic ring
  217           .... (4 indent ) Plural oxygens bonded directly to the ring
  218           ... (3 indent ) Benzene ring in the acid moiety
  219           ... (3 indent ) Acyclic carbon-to-carbon unsaturation in the acid moiety (e.g., ricinoleic acid, castor oil, etc.)
  220           .. (2 indent ) Benzene ring in the acid moiety
  221           .. (2 indent ) Alicyclic ring in the acid moiety
  222           ... (3 indent ) The alicyclic ring is five-membered
  223           .. (2 indent ) Acyclic carbon-to-carbon unsaturation in the acid moiety
  224           ... (3 indent ) Plural carbon-to-carbon unsaturation in the acid moiety (e.g., polyunsaturated fatty acids, etc.)
  225           .. (2 indent ) Halogen in the acid moiety
  226           ... (3 indent ) Plural halogens in the acid moiety
  227           .. (2 indent ) Plural oxy groups in the alcohol moiety (e.g., triglycerides, ethylene glycol monostearate, 2-methoxy ethyl laurate, etc.)
  228           ... (3 indent ) Ring in the alcohol moiety
  229           .. (2 indent ) Ring in the alcohol moiety
  230           .. (2 indent ) Acyclic carbon-to-carbon unsaturation in the alcohol moiety
  231           .. (2 indent ) Halogen in the alcohol moiety
 
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