PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16325676
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["568", "403000"]

Abstract:
Embodiments herein concerns the eco-friendly conversion of simple alcohols to linear or branched functionalized alkanes, by integrated catalysis. The alcohols are firstlyoxidized either chemically or enzymatically to the corresponding aldehydes or ketones, followed by aldol condensations using a catalyst to give the corresponding enals or enones. The enals or enones are subsequently and selectively hydrogenated using a recyclable heterogeneous metal catalyst, organocatalyst or an enzyme to provide linear or branched functionalized alkanes with an aldehyde, keto- or alcohol functionality. The process is also iterative and can be further extended by repeating the above integrated catalysis for producing long-chain functionalized alkanes from simple alcohols.

Claim (Index 18):
The method according to any one of the previous claims, comprising:\n (i) providing the starting alcohol, (ii) providing an oxidant, such as air, O 2 , or NaClO, (iii) optionally providing an oxidation catalysts system, such as TEMPO, CuBr, bpy, NMI, O 2 ; or TEMPO, HNO 3 , HCl, O 2 ; or TEMPO, NaOCl, KBr; or a heterogeneous supported metal catalyst (Pd, Ag, Ru, Ir, or Fe); or a homogeneous catalyst system (Pd, Ag, Ru, Ir, or Fe) and converting the starting alcohol, optionally in the presence of said oxidation catalyst system, into the corresponding aldehyde or ketone, (iv) providing an amine catalyst system or a salt thereof, (v) optionally including an acid, and converting the corresponding aldehyde or ketone, in the presence of said amine catalyst system or the salt thereof, optionally including an acid, into the enal or enone, (vi) providing a reducing agent, such as formic acid, H 2 , or ammonium formiate, (vii) optionally providing a reducing catalyst which is heterogeneous supported metal catalyst (Pd, Ag, Ru, Ir, Fe, Ni, or Co), or a homogeneous organometallic complex (Pd, Ag, Ru, Ir, Fe, Ni, or Co); and reducing the enal or enone, optionally in the presence of said reducing catalyst, into the product.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63235
- Patent Class: 568.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12830957', '15522838', '14776947', '15536295', '16027487']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6946238933180817
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5214148510843676
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6773029890947103
- Mean Citation Score: 262.239484
- Max Citation Score: 290.91873
- Similarity Product: 195.516926225524

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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