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 5):
The method according to any one of the previous claims, comprising the steps of:\n (i) providing the starting alcohol, (ii) providing an oxidant, such as air, H 2 O 2 , O 2 , or NaOCl, (iii) optionally providing an oxidizing catalyst, such as a heterogeneous supported metal catalyst, or a homogeneous organometallic complex, or a metal-free catalyst (mediator), or an oxidizing enzyme (EC 1:10:3:2) and oxidizing the starting alcohol, optionally in the presence of said oxidizing catalyst, into the corresponding aldehyde or ketone, (iv) providing a metal-free condensation catalyst system, (v) optionally including an acid or a salt thereof, and converting the corresponding aldehyde or ketone, in the presence of said condensation catalyst system, into the enal or enone, (vi) providing a reducing agent, such as formic acid, H 2 , ammonium formiate, or Hantzsch ester, (vii) optionally providing a reducing catalyst, such as a heterogeneous supported metal catalyst, or a homogeneous organometallic complex, or a metal-free catalyst, or a reducing enzyme 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): 0.6956488300575171
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.514244274454799
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6775083744972453
- Mean Citation Score: 262.239484
- Max Citation Score: 290.91873
- Similarity Product: 228.71203049374225

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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