Compositions and processes employing activators for the generation of peroxyacids

Abstract

Hydrogen peroxide and persalt washing or disinfecting compositions perform comparatively ineffectively at ambient to low operating temperatures. More effective washing/disinfection processes are obtained by employing according to the instant invention there with a peroxyacid generator selected from compounds having the general formula (I): ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 often are hydrogen, R.sub.6 is often hydrogen or methyl and R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are often methyl or phenyl. R.sub.3 or R.sub.5 can each also represent a difunctional group terminating at its other end in a second gem-diester group or in an enol ester group. Especially preferred peroxyacid generators include 1,1,5-triacetoxypent-4-ene, 1,1,5,5-tetraacetoxy pentane, the corresponding butene and butane compounds, ethylidene benzoate acetate and bis(ethylidene acetate) adipate.

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