Surfactant Potentiators for Ethoxylated Surfactants
AssigneeArxada AG
InventorsXiao Jiang, David Binder, Gladys Michelle Dimitriadis, Jake Jacobs
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Abstract
Provided herein are compositions containing at least one surfactant combined with at least one surfactant potentiator. The surfactant is an ethoxylated surfactant. In one aspect, the surfactant is an ethoxylated quaternary tertiary amine. In still another aspect, the surfactant is a mixture of an ethoxylated tertiary amine and an ethoxylated quaternary amine. The composition can be a fabric treatment, such as a laundry detergent.
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A composition comprising:
- one or more surfactants comprising:
- i) an ethoxylated tertiary amine of the general formula (I):
- ii) an ethoxylated quaternary amine of the general formula (II):
- iii) or mixtures thereof,
- wherein
- R1 is a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic or aromatic, substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C24 hydrocarbon or a mixture thereof,
- R2 is a group of formula —(CHRa—CHRb—O)nH;
- R3 is a group of formula —(CHRc—CHRd—O)mH;
- n and m are an integer of from 2 to 60, with the proviso that n and m are independently the same or different,
- RQ is a C1 to C4 hydrocarbon or is —CHRe—CHRfO—(CHRe—CHRfO)pH
- Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, Re, Rf are independent of each other and comprise H, a methyl group, or a CH2OH group and p is 0 or 1,
- X is a counterion selected from the group consisting of species generated from a mineral acid or organic acid, and
- q is 1, 2, 3 or 4;
- and
- a surfactant potentiator, the surfactant potentiator comprising a morpholine, a vinyl pyrrolidone copolymer, a polyacrylate crosspolymer, a polyalkyleneimine, an alkyl polyglucoside, a salt of an alkyl or an alkylene ester or diester of a sulfosuccinic acid, or mixtures thereof.
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A ready to use composition, comprising:
- one or more surfactants comprising:
- iv) an ethoxylated tertiary amine of the general formula (I);
- v) an ethoxylated quaternary amine of the general formula (II):
- vi) or mixtures thereof,
- wherein
- R1 is a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated, aliphatic or aromatic, substituted or unsubstituted C6 to C24 hydrocarbon or a mixture thereof,
- R2 is a group of formula —(CHRa—CHRb—O)nH;
- R3 is a group of formula —(CHRc—CHRd—O)mH;
- n and m are an integer of from 2 to 60, with the proviso that n and m are independently the same or different,
- RQ is a C1 to C4 hydrocarbon or is —CHRe—CHRfO—(CHRe—CHRfO)pH
- Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd, Re, Rf are independent of each other and comprise H, a methyl group or a CH2OH group and p is 0 or 1,
- X is a counterion selected from the group consisting of species generated from a mineral acid or organic acid, and
- q is 1, 2, 3 or 4;
- a surfactant potentiator comprising a morpholine, a vinyl pyrrolidone copolymer, a polyacrylate crosspolymer, a polyalkyleneimine, an alkyl polyglucoside, a salt of an alkyl or an alkylene ester or diester of a sulfosuccinic acid, or mixtures thereof;
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- wherein the one or more surfactant potentiators are present in the ready to use composition in an amount of greater than about 1 ppm.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.