Lubricant compositions comprising tolyltriazole-derived tri/tetra esters as additives for distillate fuels

An improved liquid fuel composition comprising a major proportion of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel or oxygenated fuel or mixtures thereof and a minor proportion of an additive product of reaction prepared by reacting (1) a triazole or hydrocarbyl substituted triazole with a hydrocarbyl oxide which optionally contains N, S, O to form a triazole-derived alcohol and thereafter (2) reacting said triazole-derived alcohol with a tri, tetra, or poly carboxylic acid or an acid ester generating compound thereby producing a tolyltriazole/alkyl epoxide derived tri, tetra, or poly ester of dicarboxylic acids or acid generating species wherein the reaction can be optionally carried out with a catalytic amount of an acidic reacting catalyst at temperatures varying from ambient to about 250.degree. C. under ambient or autogenous pressures, in molar ratios of reactants varying from equimolar to more than molar to less than molar of 1) and 2) above where free carboxylate remains in the reaction for a time sufficient to obtain the desired additive product of reaction.