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US 2002/0058601 A1Published application
Compositions including ether-capped poly(oxyalkylated) alcohol wetting agents
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsGlenn Thomas Jordan IV, William Michael Scheper, Mark Robert Sivik, Bernard William Kluesener, Kristen Lynne McKenzie
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Abstract
Compositions including ether-capped poly(oxyalkylated) alcohol wetting agents. The wetting agents are low-foaming and have good biodegradability, and can be used in a variety of applications, for example in polymer, anti-foaming, biocidal, coating, fertilizer, pharmaceutical, and drilling fluid compositions.
Claims31
A composition comprising:
- (a) from about 0.01% to about 50% by weight of the composition of a wetting agent, wherein said wetting agent comprises an ether-capped poly(oxyalkylated) alcohol having the formula:
- RO(R1O)xCH(CH3)OR2
- wherein R is selected from the group consisting of linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted, aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon radicals having from about 1 to about 30 carbon atoms;
- R1 may be the same or different, and is independently selected from the group consisting of branched or linear C2 to C7 alkylene in any given molecule;
- x is a number from 1 to about 30;
- and R2 is selected from the group consisting of:
- (i) a 4 to 8 membered substituted, or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring containing from 1 to 3 hetero atoms;
- and
- (ii) linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted, cyclic or acyclic, aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon radicals having from about 1 to about 30 carbon atoms;
- provided that when R2 is (ii) then either at least one of R2 is other than C2 to C3 alkylene or R2 has from 6 to 30 carbon atoms;
- and
- (b) from about 0.1% to about 99% by weight of the composition of an adjunct ingredient.
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