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29.21 with methylamine of heading phenoxyacetic acid of headlng 29.18) ...................................................................................Heading 29.2 1 (3) Co-ordination compounds. Metal co-ordination compounds generally include all the types, whether or not charged, in which a metal is bound to several atoms (generally 2 to 9 atoms) made available by one or more ligands. The skeletal geometry formed by the metal and the atoms which are bound to it as well as the number of metal links are generally characteristic for a given metal. Co-ordination compounds, other than products classifiable in sub-chapter XI or in heading 29.41, should be considered as being fragmented by "cleavin of all metal bonds, apart from metal-carbon bonds, and should be classified according to t e fragment (regarded as a real compound for classification purposes) falling in Chapter 29, in the heading occurring last in numerical order. f For the urposes of Note 5 (C) (3) to this Chapter, the term "fragments" covers the ligands and the part&) containing the metalcarbon bond that have resulted fiom the cleavage. Examples are shown below : Potassium trioxalatoferrate (111) is classifiable in the headin in which the oxalic acid falls (heading 29-17), corresponding to the fragment obtained after c eaving of the metal bonds. k Ferrocholinate (D4T-T) is classifiable in the heading covering choline (heading 29.23), which is classified in the heading occuring last in numerical order, rather than in the heading for citric acid corresponding to the other fkagment that can be taken into account for classification purposes. Budotitane (INN) : After cleaving of the metal bonds, two fragments are obtained, one cones onding to ethanol (Chapter 22), the other to benzoylacetone (and its enol-function) classi led in heading 29.14. Budotitane (INN) should therefore be classified in heading 29.14. ? (4) Halides of carboxylic acids. Such halides are classified in the same headin as the correspondin acids. For example, isobutyryl chloride is classified (like the iso utyric acid to whi& it corresponds) in heading 29.15. % (H) Classification in headings 29.32,29.33 and 29.34 (Chapter Note 7) Headin s 29.32, 29.33 and 29.34 do not include e oxides with a three-membered ring, ketone peroxidpes, cyclic polymers of aldehydes or of thioa dehydes, anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, cyclic esters of polyhydric alcohols or phenols with polybasic acids, or imides of olybasic acids, if the rin position hetero-atoms are those resulting solely from the cyclising Rnction or functions here fisted. P If, in addition to functions listed in the first sentence of Note 7 to Chapter 29, there are other ring-position hetero-atoms present in the structure, the classification should be carried out with reference to all the c clisin functions present. Thus, for exam le, anaxirone (INN) and pradefovir (INN) shou d be c assified in heading 29.34 as heterocyc ic compounds with two or more different hetero-atoms and not in heading 29.33 as heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atoms only. r !? P N 0-' w Anaxirone (INN) Pradefovir (INN) (LT) Classification of derivatives The classification of derivatives of chemical compounds at heading level is to be determined by application of the General Interpretative Rules. Note 3 to this Chapter applies when a denvative is potentially classifiable in two or more headings. Within any one heading of this Chapter, derivatives are to be classified by application of SubheadingNote 1. (K) Fused ring systems A fused ring system is one in which there are at least two rings which have one, and only one, common bond and have two, and only two, atoms in common. Fused ring systems ap ear in the molecules of polycyclic compounds (e.g., polycyclic hydrocarbons, heterocyc/? ic corn ouncls) in which two cyclic rings are joined by a common side involving two adjacent atoms. Zamples are shown below : Naphthalene Quinoline Fused quinoline In complex ring systems, fusion can take place to more than one side of any particular ring. Polycyclic compounds in which two rings have two, and only two, atoms in common are said to be " ortho-fused ". On the other hand, polycyclic compounds in which one ring contains two, and only two, atoms in common with each of the two or more rings of a contiguous series of rings are said to be " ortho- and peri-fused ". These two different types of fused ring systems are illustrated by the following examples : 3 common faces 6 common atoms " Ortho-fused " system 7 common faces 8 common atoms 5 common faces 6 common atoms " Ortho- and peri-fused " systems On the other hand, the following is an example of a bridged (not fused) quinoline : Bridged quinoline. Sub-chapter I HYDROCARBONS AND THEIR HALOGENATED, SULPHONATED, NITRATED OR NITROSATED DERIVATIVES
Notes. 1.- Except where the context otherwise requires, the headings of this Chapter apply only to : (a) Separate chemically defined organic compounds, whether or not containing impurities; (b) Mixtures of two or more isomers of the same organic compound (whether or not containing impurities), except mixtures of acyclic hydrocarbon isomers (other than stereoisomers), whether or not saturated (Chapter 27); (c) The products of headings 29.36 to 29.39 or the sugar ethers, sugar acetals and sugar esters, and their salts, of heading 29.40, or the products of heading 29.41, whether or not chemically defined; (d) The products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in water; (e) The products mentioned in (a), (b) or (c) above dissolved in other solvents provided that the solution constitutes a normal and necessary method of putting up these products adopted solely for reasons of safety or for transport and that the solvent does not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use; (f) The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) above with an added stabiliser (including an anti- caking agent) necessary for their preservation or transport; (g) The products mentioned in (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) above with an added anti-dusting agent or a colouring or odoriferous substance or an emetic added to facilitate their identification or for safety reasons, provided that the additions do not render the product particularly suitable for specific use rather than for general use; (h) The following products, diluted to standard strengths, for the production of azo dyes : diazonium salts, couplers used for these salts and diazotisable amines and their salts. 2.- This Chapter does not cover : (a) Goods of heading 15.04 or crude glycerol of heading 15.20; (b) Ethyl alcohol (heading 22.07 or 22.08); (c) Methane or propane (heading 27.11); (d) The compounds of carbon mentioned in Note 2 to Chapter 28; (e) Immunological products of heading 30.02; (f) Urea (heading 31.02 or 31.05); (g) Colouring matter of vegetable or animal origin (heading 32.03), synthetic organic colouring matter, synthetic organic products of a kind used as fluorescent brightening agents or as luminophores (heading 32.04) or dyes or other colouring matter put up in forms or packings for retail sale (heading 32.12); (h) Enzymes (heading 35.07); (ij) Metaldehyde, hexamethylenetetramine or similar substances, put up in forms (for example, tablets, sticks or similar forms) for use as fuels, or liquid or liquefied-gas fuels in containers of a kind used for filling or refilling cigarette or similar lighters and of a capacity not exceeding 300 cm3 (heading 36.06); (k) Products put up as charges for fire-extinguishers or put up in fire-extinguishing grenades, of heading 38.13; ink removers put up in packings for retail sale, of heading 38.24; or (l) Optical elements, for example, of ethylenediamine tartrate (heading 90.01). 3.- Goods which could be included in two or more of the headings of this Chapter are to be classified in that one of those headings which occurs last in numerical order. 4.- In headings 29.04 to 29.06, 29.08 to 29.11 and 29.13 to 29.20, any reference to halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives includes a reference to compound derivatives, such as sulphohalogenated, nitrohalogenated, nitrosulphonated or nitrosulphohalogenated derivatives. Nitro or nitroso groups are not to be taken as “nitrogen-functions” for the purposes of heading 29.29. For the purposes of headings 29.11, 29.12, 29.14, 29.18 and 29.22, “oxygen function”, the characteristic organic oxygen-containing group of those respective headings, is restricted to the oxygen-functions referred to in headings 29.05 to 29.20. 5.- (A) The esters of acid-function organic compounds of sub-Chapters I to VII with organic compounds of these sub-Chapters are to be classified with that compound which is classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in these sub-Chapters. (B) Esters of ethyl alcohol with acid-function organic compounds of sub-Chapters I to VII are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acid-function compounds. (C) Subject to Note 1 to Section VI and Note 2 to Chapter 28 : (1) Inorganic salts of organic compounds such as acid-, phenol- or enol-function compounds or organic bases, of sub-Chapters I to X or heading 29.42, are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the organic compound; (2) Salts formed between organic compounds of sub-Chapters I to X or heading 29.42 are to be classified in the heading appropriate to the base or to the acid (including phenol- or enol- function compounds) from which they are formed, whichever occurs last in numerical order in the Chapter; and (3) Co-ordination compounds, other than products classifiable in sub-Chapter XI or heading 29.41, are to be classified in the heading which occurs last in numerical order in Chapter 29, among those appropriate to the fragments formed by "cleaving" of all metal bonds, other than metal- carbon bonds. (D) Metal alcoholates are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding alcohols except in the case of ethanol (heading 29.05). (E) Halides of carboxylic acids are to be classified in the same heading as the corresponding acids. 6.- The compounds of headings 29.30 and 29.31 are organic compounds the molecules of which contain, in addition to atoms of hydrogen, oxygen or nitrogen, atoms of other non-metals or of metals (such as sulphur, arsenic or lead) directly linked to carbon atoms. Heading 29.30 (organo-sulphur compounds) and heading 29.31 (other organo-inorganic compounds) do not include sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (including compound derivatives) which, apart from hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen, only have directly linked to carbon the atoms of sulphur or of a halogen which give them their nature of sulphonated or halogenated derivatives (or compound derivatives). 7.- Headings 29.32, 29.33 and 29.34 do not include epoxides with a three-membered ring, ketone peroxides, cyclic polymers of aldehydes or of thioaldehydes, anhydrides of polybasic carboxylic acids, cyclic esters of polyhydric alcohols or phenols with polybasic acids, or imides of polybasic acids. These provisions apply only when the ring-position hetero-atoms are those resulting solely from the cyclising function or functions here listed. 8.- For the purposes of heading 29.37 : (a) the term “hormones” includes hormone-releasing or hormone-stimulating factors, hormone inhibitors and hormone antagonists (anti-hormones); (b) the expression “used primarily as hormones” applies not only to hormone derivatives and structural analogues used primarily for their hormonal effect, but also to those derivatives and structural analogues used primarily as intermediates in the synthesis of products of this heading. Subheading Notes. 1.- Within any one heading of this Chapter, derivatives of a chemical compound (or group of chemical compounds) are to be classified in the same subheading as that compound (or group of compounds) provided that they are not more specifically covered by any other subheading and that there is no residual subheading named “Other” in the series of subheadings concerned. 2.- Note 3 to Chapter 29 does not apply to the subheadings of this Chapter.