Water-soluble automatic dishwashing detergent pouch
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsLinsey Sarah Fuller, Lindsay Suzanne Bewick, Neil Joseph Lant, Robert William John Sterry
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Abstract
A water-soluble automatic dishwashing detergent pouch includes an automatic dishwashing detergent composition that is enclosed by a water-soluble film. The automatic dishwashing detergent composition includes dipicolinic acid and/or salt thereof; transition metal bleach catalyst that is a dinuclear manganese-complex, greater than about 0.2 wt. % bleach activator that is tetraacetylethylenediamine (TAED); and a source of peroxygen that is sodium percarbonate.
Claims15
A water-soluble automatic dishwashing detergent pouch, wherein the pouch comprises an automatic dishwashing detergent composition that is enclosed by a water-soluble film, wherein the automatic dishwashing detergent composition has a weight of from 10 g to 30 g, wherein the automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprises:
- (a) from about 1.0 g to about 20 g of dipicolinic acid and/or salt thereof;
- (b) from about 0.1 mg to about 20 mg of transition metal bleach catalyst that is a dinuclear manganese-complex having the general formula:
- wherein,
- Mn is manganese which can individually be in the Ill or IV oxidation state,
- each x represents a coordinating or bridging species selected from the group consisting of H2O, O22−, O2−, OH−, HO2−, SH−, S2−, Cl−, N3−, SCN−, RCOO−, NH2− and NR3, with R being H, alkyl or aryl, (optionally substituted),
- L is a ligand which is an organic molecule containing a number of nitrogen atoms which coordinates via all or some of its nitrogen atoms to the manganese centres;
- z denotes the charge of the complex and is an integer which can be positive or negative,
- Y is a monovalent or multivalent counter-ion, leading to charge neutrality, which is dependent upon the charge z of the complex;
- and q=z/[charge Y];
- and
- wherein the transition metal bleach catalyst comprises:
- [(Me-TACN)MnIV(Âu-0)3MnIV(Me-TACN)]2+(PF6−)2,
- [(Me-MeTACN)MnIV(Âu-0)3MnIV(Me-MeTACN)]2+(PF6−)2,
- [(Me-TACN)MnIII(Âu-0)(Âu-OAc)2MnIII(Me-TACN)]2+(PF6−)2, and/or
- [(Me-MeTACN)MnIII(Âu-0)(Âu-OAc)2MnIII(Me-MeTACN)]2+(PF6−)2;
- (c) greater than about 0.2 wt. %, by weight of the automatic dishwashing detergent composition, of bleach activator that is tetraacetylethylenediamine (TAED);
- and
- (d) from about 0.1 g to about 10 g of a source of peroxygen that is sodium percarbonate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.