.~ By ring opening, removal, degradation, or shift on chain or other ring
DEFINITION
Classification: 585/476
By ring opening, removal, degradation, or shift on chain or other ring:
(under subclass 400) Subject matter wherein the product has fewer rings than the feedstock or a ring attached to a multicarbon alkyl moiety or another ring becomes attached to a carbon of the moiety or ring different from the carbon to which attached in the feedstock.
SEE OR SEARCH THIS CLASS, SUBCLASS:
439, for a similar process in which the resulting product has an unsaturated chain moiety.
