[curiouscat]

I was looking up a patent and this is the central reaction:



I'm confused about the notation of "1 eq." and "5 eq." (my highlights in the red boxes). I presume eq. = equivalents; but does this mean I add 5 times as much by weight ( an excess) of Piperylene as is predicted by stoichiometry?

Or is that trying to say something else?

[discodermolide]

I was looking up a patent and this is the central reaction:



I'm confused about the notation of "1 eq." and "5 eq." (my highlights in the red boxes). I presume eq. = equivalents; but does this mean I add 5 times as much by weight ( an excess) of Piperylene as is predicted by stoichiometry?

Or is that trying to say something else?

Probably mole equivalents. But in my patents I never wrote moles just the weights I used. But of course they were calculated from the molecular weight.

Look in the patent examples.

[fledarmus]

Unless they are specifically defined somewhere in the patent, the words used in a patent mean what they would mean to a person having ordinary skill in the art. In this case, that would be a synthetic chemist, and equivalents would refer to mole-equivalents.