| 562 / | HD | ORGANIC COMPOUNDS -- PART OF THE CLASS 532-570 SERIES | 
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| * | DD | ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (Class 532, Subclass 1) {41} | 
| 30 | DF | .~ Sulfonic acids or salts thereof (i.e., compounds containing the sulfonate group, -S(=O)(=O)-O- wherein the single bonded oxygen is bonded directly to hydrogen, or to a group IA or IIA light metal or to substituted or unsubstituted ammonium) {15} | 
| 45 | DF | .~.~ Benzene ring bonded directly to the sulfonate sulfur (e.g., purification and neutralization of benzene sulfonic acids, etc.) {11} | 
| 74 | DF | .~.~.~ Nonsulfonate chalcogen attached indirectly to the sulfonate group by nonionic bonding {6} | 
| 76 | DF | .~.~.~.~ Plural carbons bonded directly to the nonsulfonate chalcogen (e.g., ethers, sulfones, etc.) {1} | 
| 77 |  | .~.~.~.~.~ Hydroxy group or nonsulfonate sulfur attached indirectly to a benzene ring by acyclic nonionic bonding |