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• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
  • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
  • C11D3/00—Other compounding ingredients of detergent compositions covered in group C11D1/00
  • C11D3/0005—Other compounding ingredients characterised by their effect
  • C11D3/0026—Low foaming or foam regulating compositions
• • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
  • C11—ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES OR WAXES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; DETERGENTS; CANDLES
  • C11D—DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; RESIN SOAPS; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL
  • C11D1/00—Detergent compositions based essentially on surface-active compounds; Use of these compounds as a detergent
  • C11D1/66—Non-ionic compounds
  • C11D1/75—Amino oxides

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• the invention relates to a novel class of surfactant compounds, to aqueous solutions containing an effective surface active amount of the novel surfactants and to detersive systems containing the surfactant as an active detergent ingredient. More particularly the invention relates to a class of low-foaming surfactants that, depending on pH can have both cationic and nonionic properties, can be stable in the presence of halogen bleaches, and can be used generally in detersive systems such as particulate, liquid and solid household and institutional warewashing detergents, laundry detergents, hard surface cleaners, clean-in-place agents, and others.
• a surfactant is an organic compound having at least one functional group that tends to be hydrophilic or water-seeking and at least one other functional group that tends to be hydrophobic or water hating.
• These functional groups can be assembled in surfactant molecules wherein the solubility, properties, location and relative sizes of the functional groups determines the surfactant properties of the compound.
• surfactants generally depends upon the properties of the surfactant in aqueous solution.
• Important properties of surfactants include the wetting power of aqueous solutions of surfactants, the ability of surfactants to dissolve normally water insoluble substances, the ability of surfactants to stabilize dispersed systems such as emulsions or suspensions, the ability of detersive systems (systems containing a detergent) to clean, the ability of surfactants to foam or resist foaming in aqueous solutions, the ability of surfactants to sanitize and others.
• Many types of surfactant molecules are known and are broadly classified as anionic, cationic, nonionic and amphoteric.
• Surfactant molecules can contain one or more of a variety of hydrophilic functional groups such as hydroxyl groups, ether linkages, groups derived from alkylene oxides such as ethylene oxide and propylene oxide; quaternary amines, ester linkages, amino groups, amido groups, carboxylic acid groups, sulfonic acid groups, and can contain one or more of hydrophilic groups such as alkyl groups, unsaturated alkenyl or alkynyl groups, aromatic groups, fatty acid residues, and many others.
• Such functional groups can easily be classified by the skilled artisan into groups that tend to be hydrophilic and groups that tend to be hydrophobic. However, the properties of the resulting surfactant molecules are not directly predictable since the contribution of each functional group is not fully quantifiable.
• tertiary amine oxide compounds have been recognized in the art.
• the prior art is primarily directed to two classes of surfactants which have been examined in great detail and have useful high-foaming surfactant properties.
• These compounds are typically the mono-(C 8-18 alkyl)di(methyl) amine oxide compounds of the formula: wherein R is a C 8-18 alkyl group and the mono-(C 8-18 alkyl)di(C 2-3 alkanol) amine oxide compounds of the formula:
• R is a C 8-18 alkyl group
• the commercial use of such amine oxide classes are discussed in Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Vol. 1, pp. 32-47, Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology , Vol. 19, pp. 556-559. See also Burton, U.S.
• novel surfactant class that comprises at least one compound or a mixture of compounds of the formula: wherein R is a C 1-4 alkyl and each R1 is independently a branched or unbranched aliphatic hydrocarbon group having more than 6 carbon atoms, and less than 20, preferably less than 14 carbon atoms.
• novel aqueous compositions of this invention comprise an effective amount, typically about 5 wt-% or less, of a mono-(C 1-4 alkyl)di(C 6-20 alkyl)-amine oxide compound sufficient to produce surfactant properties in an aqueous solution.
• a mono-(C 1-4 alkyl)di(C 6-20 alkyl)-amine oxide compound sufficient to produce surfactant properties in an aqueous solution.
• novel detersive systems that contain the novel surfactants of this invention in combination with other components.
• the unique properties of the surfactants of this invention provide warewashing detergents, hard surface cleaners and laundry detergents, clean-in-place compositions and other systems having novel and surprising properties.
• the mono-(C 1-4 alkyl)-di-(C 6-20 alkyl)amine oxide surfactant compounds of the invention comprise a compound according to the formula: wherein R comprises an alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms and R1 comprises a linear, branched or cyclic aliphatic group having 6 to 20, preferably 6 to 12 carbon atoms.
• C 6-20 linear or branched alkyl groups include hexyl, heptyl, 2-ethylhexyl, n-octyl, 2,2,4-trimethylpentyl, cyclohexyl, methylcyclohexyl, decyl, dodecyl, tetradecyl, hexadecyl, octadecyl, etc.
• the C 1-4 alkyl groups include methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, isopropyl, n-butyl, isobutyl, tertiary butyl.
• the most preferred amine oxide surfactants are compounds of the formulae I wherein either (1) R1 is octyl, decyl or mixtures thereof, (2) R1 is octyl, (3) R1 is decyl, or (4) R1 is a mixture of decyl, dodecyl and tetradecyl.
• the mixtures of the surfactant compositions comprise a mixture of dioctyl methylamine oxide and didecyl amine oxide or a mixture of compounds wherein R1 can be either octyl, decyl or a mixture of octyl and decyl.
• Amine oxides are typically formed from tertiary amines by an oxidative reaction creating the amine oxide functional group.
• amine oxides are made by oxidizing a tertiary amine with hydrogen peroxide or other oxygen source.
• Such preparatory methods are discussed by Lake and Hoh in J. Am. Oil Chemist Society , 40, 628 (1963), The higher alkyl C 6-18 dimethylamine oxides were first developed as foam builders in liquid handwashing formulations. In addition to foam boosting, the higher alkyl dimethylamine oxides have been shown to be effective in high foaming shampoos and other end uses where foaming is important,
• the amine oxide compounds of this invention are preferably made by oxidizing the di-C 6-20 alkyl-C 1-4 alkylamine with hydrogen peroxide or other common oxidant (oxygen yielding substance) at elevated temperature.
• the tertiary amine compound is typically placed in a reaction flask and heated to an elevated temperature.
• an aqueous solution of oxidant (30 to 50 wt-%) over an extended period,
• the reaction mixture is typically treated to dispel remaining hydrogen peroxide.
• the amine oxide compounds are formed at high yield with little residual amine.
• the novel surfactant solutions of this invention can be used in the form of a detersive system.
• Detersive systems comprise a combination ingredients that when used primarily, but not always, in aqueous detergents can act to remove soil from a substrate.
• the detersive systems of this invention are typically liquids, gels, granular or particulate solids or cast solids.
• a detergent is a chemical compound that can weaken or break bonds between soil and a substrate.
• Detergents include surfactants, solvents, alkalis, and other compounds.
• a detersive system is typically used in a liquid cleaning bath which produces an enhanced cleaning effect that is caused primarily by the presence in the bath of a special solute (the detergent) that acts by altering the interfacial effects at the various phase boundaries (i.e.
• the action of the bath typically involves more than simply soil dissolution.
• the cleaning or washing process in a typical detersive system usually consists of the following sequence of operations.
• the soiled substrate is immersed or otherwise introduced into or contacted by a large excess of a bath containing a detergent solute.
• the soil and the underlying object or substrate typically becomes thoroughly wetted by the bath.
• the system is subjected to mechanical agitation by rubbing, shaking, spraying, mixing, or other action to provide a shearing action which aids in the separation of the soil from the substrate.
• the bath now containing the soil is typically removed from the object to be cleaned, the object is rinsed and often dried.
• detersive systems are used in cleaning hard surfaces such as sinks, tiles, windows, and other glass, ceramic, plastic or other hard surface dishware and laundry or other textiles.
• Soils removed from substrates by the detersive systems are extremely variable in composition. They may be liquid, solid or a mixture thereof.
• the soils typically consist of mixtures of proteinaceous, carbohydrate, and fatty materials typically in combination with inorganic components and some water.
• Detersive baths typically contain a detergent which is often an organic surfactant, an inorganic detersive component, or combinations of organic and inorganic components, and can typically be used in combination with other organic and inorganic components that provide additional properties or enhance the basic detersive property of the detersive component.
• a detergent which is often an organic surfactant, an inorganic detersive component, or combinations of organic and inorganic components, and can typically be used in combination with other organic and inorganic components that provide additional properties or enhance the basic detersive property of the detersive component.
• the compositions dissolved or suspended in water to provide detersive systems are formulated to suit the requirements of the soiled substrate to be cleaned and the expected range of washing conditions. Few cleaning systems have a single component.
• Formulated detersive systems consisting of several components often out-perform single component systems. The materials which can be used independently in detersive systems are as follows:
• the detersive systems of this invention include the amine oxide surfactant composition disclosed herein.
• the properties of the amine oxide surfactant can be enhanced or augmented using a variety of other anionic, nonionic, cationic and amphoteric surfactants known in the art including soaps such as sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids, rosin acids, and tall oil; alkyl or alkyl benzene sulfonates; alkyl sulfates; long chain acid esters of polyethylene glycols; polyethylene glycol ethers of alkyl phenols; polyethylene glycol ethers of long chain alcohols and mercaptans; fatty acid diethanol amides; block copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide.
• soaps such as sodium or potassium salts of fatty acids, rosin acids, and tall oil
• alkyl or alkyl benzene sulfonates alkyl sulfates
• long chain acid esters of polyethylene glycols polyethylene
• Preferred surfactants are the low foaming nonionic or anionic surfactant compositions.
• Cationic surfactants such as quaternary ammonium compounds are frequently used in detersive systems but are typically not cleansing ingredients and are used for purposes such as sanitizing or fabric softening.
• Preferred surfactants for use with the amine oxide surfactants of this invention in the detersive systems comprise low foaming nonionic surfactants including block copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide, polyethylene glycol ethers of either alkyl phenols or long chain fatty alcohols.
• the ethylene oxide-propylene oxide block copolymers can contain from about 3 to about 50 moles of ethylene oxide in combination with about 3 to about 50 moles of propylene oxide.
• the alkoxylated alkyl phenols or the alkoxylated fatty alcohols can contain from about 3 to about 40 moles of the alkylene oxide, or mixtures thereof, in combination with 1 mole of the alkyl phenol or fatty alcohol.
• Detersive systems can contain inorganic compounds which are typically grouped into the following six categories: alkalis, phosphates, silicates, neutral soluble salts, acids, and insoluble inorganic builders.
• the alkalis typically contains alkali metal hydroxides, alkali metal carbonates, alkali metal bicarbonates, alkali metal sesquicarbonate, and alkali metal borates.
• the carbonate and borate forms are typically used in place of alkali metal hydroxide when a higher pH is desired.
• Inorganic phosphate compositions include monomeric phosphate compounds such as sodium orthophosphate and the higher condensed phosphates including tetraalkali metal pyrophosphates, sodium tripolyphosphate, glassy phosphates and others. Phosphates are typically used as sequestering, suspending and cleaning agents. Sodium tripolyphosphate is the most widely used builder in heavy detergents.
• Silicates (Na2O:SiO2 compounds) which are typically a reaction product between sodium hydroxide and silica, have a variety of Na2O:SiO2 reaction ratios. Silicates are primarily used as alkalis as builders in both warewashing and laundry formulations.
• Neutral soluble salts which are typically the reaction product of a strong acid and a strong base including sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, and others are typically used as builders or diluents in synthetic surfactant based detersive compositions.
• Acids are often incorporated into hard surface detergents for the purpose of dissolving or loosening by chemical action soils which otherwise can be difficult to remove. Such soils include calcium and magnesium hardness components of service water and other mildly alkaline soil. Both organic and inorganic acids can be used. Inorganic acids include hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, phosphoric acids, and others. Organic acids that can be used include acetic acid, lactic acid, oxalic acid, citric acid, benzoic acid, and others. Insoluble organic builders are often used in both liquid, gel and solid detersive systems. The insoluble inorganics including clays, both natural and synthetic, montmorilonite clay, bentonite clay, can have a detersive effect in certain systems. Further, they can be used as suspending agents to maintain a liquid or gelled system.
• the detersive systems can contain organic builders and other special purpose additives.
• This class of compounds are typically organic molecules having little detersive nature but containing many other desirable properties including antiredeposition additives, sequestrants, antifoaming or foaming additives, whiteners and brighteners, additives for maintaining the solubility of components, and additives for protecting both the substrate and the washing apparatus.
• the most common organic additives include organic sequestrants and organic antiredeposition agents.
• Organic sequestrants include compositions such as polyacrylic acid and methacrylic acid polymers, ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid, nitrilo triacetic acid, etc. and others.
• Antiredeposition agents include alkali metal carboxymethyl cellulose and others.
• detersive solutions are prepared from typically liquid, gelled, granular or cast solid detersive systems by the action of water within a warewashing machine.
• the surfactant of this invention can be used in detersive compositions prepared from solid cast, granular, particulate, powdered, gelled or liquid warewashing cleaners.
• the surfactant solutions must show effective soil removing properties, be resistant to any halogen source present in the cleaner, and should be low foaming or preferably defoaming.
• Dishwashing detersive systems typically comprise a source of alkali in the form of an alkali metal hydroxide, alkali metal carbonate, or alkali metal silicate in combination with a hardness sequestering agent, optional surfactants, a source of halogen bleach, and other optional chemical substances.
• the amine oxide surfactant composition of this invention can be used in warewashing detersive systems since they are low-foaming, chlorine stable, and are useful at typical alkaline pH's found in dishwashing detersive systems to augment or enhance the soil removal properties of the alkali components.
• aqueous surfactant solutions of this invention are often used in a clean-in-place-cleaning environment in which the chemical properties of an aqueous solution pumped into a site requiring cleaning are relied on to the exclusion of mechanical soil removing processes in order to clean pipelines, process equipment, storage tanks, and other enclosed easily soiled locations. Such applications require significant detergency and stability to chemical soils.
• the novel surfactant compositions of the invention can be used in the form of an aqueous solution, prepared by diluting a concentrate, containing typically less than about 5,000 parts per million of the amine oxide surfactant, preferably for purposes of reducing cost of use, the surfactant compositions of this invention will contain less than 500 parts per million surfactant, and most preferably, as a result of the nature of surfactant compounds, optimum surfactant properties will be found in aqueous solutions containing the surfactants of this invention at a concentration of about 1 to 200 parts per million surfactant.
• Laundry detersive systems typically in the form of liquid, gelled, granular, particulate or cast solid compositions can be used in both household and institutional laundry equipment to clean and destain typically soiled fabric articles. Cleaning of such articles is typically accomplished by removing soil that is physically associated with the fabric and by destaining or bleaching soils that cannot be removed by typical detersive systems.
• Laundry compositions typically comprise anionic or nonionic surfactants, water, softening or hardness sequestering agents, foam stabilizers, pH buffers, soil suspending agents, perfumes, brighteners, opacifiers, and colorants. If the laundry detersive system is in liquid form typically the components are dissolved or suspended in water, while if in a gelled form the water solution is typically combined with a gelling agent.
• amine oxide surfactant compositions of this invention can be used in a variety of liquid detergent compositions that can be used in a variety of environments including hard surface cleaning, hand cleaning, general household cleaning, car washing, recreational equipment cleaning, etc.
• detersive systems are used in the form as shown below or in aqueous solution prepared from the compositions as shown below.
• the amine oxide product was dissolved in an equal volume of CH2Cl2 and was filtered. The CH2Cl2 was stripped and the product was found to contain 87.2% dioctyl methylamine oxide and 1.2% free amine.
• a tertiary amine comprising a mixture of 50% octyl decyl methylamine, 25% dioctyl methylamine, and 25% didecyl methylamine (1.0 moles, DAMA 810, Ethyl Corp.).
• the resin flask and its contents were heated to a temperature of about 70° C. and into the heated stirred tertiary amine was added 120 grams (1.23 moles) of a 35 wt-% aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution at an addition rate of 15 milliliters per each 10 minutes.
• Example IV Following the procedure of Example IV except that a dicocomethylamine was substituted for the didecyl methylamine, a dicocomethylamine oxide product was formed having 83.3% dicocomethylamine oxide and 1.6 wt-% free amine in the product.
• the amine oxide surfactants of the invention were tested for dynamic foaming, surface tension and straight line gardner detergency.
• the following Tables summarize the data.
• the surface tension was measured in dynes per square centimeter on a Fisher Model 21 tensiometer with the indicated concentration of the amine oxide surfactant dissolved in deionized water measured at 70-80° F.
• the dynamic foaming data relating to the surfactant of the reaction were generated in a foam test device which is a cylindrical container 8 liters in volume, 15 centimeters in diameter, and 50 centimeters in height, equipped with an electric hot plate for temperature control, and a pump to recirculate the test solution at 6 p.s.i. via a means to direct a spray of the test solution onto the surface of the contents of the solution to generate foam.
• a foam test device which is a cylindrical container 8 liters in volume, 15 centimeters in diameter, and 50 centimeters in height, equipped with an electric hot plate for temperature control, and a pump to recirculate the test solution at 6 p.s.i. via a means to direct a spray of the test solution onto the surface of the contents of the solution to generate foam.
• Three liters of test solution were prepared in soft water which contained 50 p.p.m. of the aqueous amine oxide surfactant. The tests were performed by recirculating the detergent solution through the
• the cleaning efficiencies of the surfactant compositions of this invention were measured using the gardner straight line detergency evaluation procedure in which a Gardner apparatus model WG6700 machine was used to clean standard soiled tiles with standard pressure and stroke of a sponge using use-dilution concentrations of surfactants on standard soiled tiles using an oily soil comprising 50% deodorized kerosene, 5% mineral oil, 5% #10 W motor oil, 2.5% of a dispersion of graphite in petroleum, and 37.5% black clay.
• dialkyl methylamine oxide surfactants of the invention have significant surface tension, low foaming properties and detergency.
• a granular laundry system comprising 40.0% sodium tripolyphosphate, 20.0% didodecylmethylamine oxide (75% active in water), 10% sodium metasilicate, and 30% sodium carbonate by adding the sodium tripolyphosphate to a 1.5 liter ribbon blender. The amine oxide was absorbed on the tripolyphosphate and the balance of the particulates were added until blended.
• a granular laundry system was prepared according to Example A except that nonylphenol 9.5 mole ethoxylate was used to entirely replace the amine oxide.
• a tergotometer device was used to evaluate the two compositions. The following conditions were used: RPM rate 150 Wash time 5 minutes Wash volume 800 mls. Detergent concentration 2 grams (0.25 wt/wt) Temperature 50° C. Water type Distilled Soil fabric type Dacron 54W/cotton polyester 65/35 Shirting material with durable press Finish soiled with clay, lamp black, iron oxide and lanolin soil supplied by Test Fabrics, Inc., Middlesex, N.J., U.S.A.
• Example B gave a soil removal of 42.3%, whereas Example A gave a soil removal of 46.0%.
• Each value is the average of three separate experiments. Soil removal was measured using a Hunter Lab D2504 color difference meter.
• a granular warewashing system comprising 35 wt-% sodium tripolyphosphate, 3.0% didodecylmethylamine oxide, 40% sodium metasilicate, 20% sodium carbonate, and 2% sodium dichlorodiisocyanurate dihydrate by adding the sodium tripolyphosphate to a 1.5 liter ribbon blender.
• the didodecylmethylamine oxide surfactant was added to and absorbed onto the sodium tripolyphosphate and the balance of the particulate ingredients were added and blended until uniform.
• a liquid, aqueous hard surface cleaner was prepared comprising 6% didodecylmethylamine oxide, 10% nonyl phenol 9.5 ethoxylate, 10% sodium xylene sulfonate hydrotrope, and 74% water by adding to water contained in a glass beaker the recited ingredients.
• a granular, clean-in-place concentrate composition comprising 3 wt-% dioctylmethylamine oxide, 2% water, 25% sodium tripolyphosphate, and 70% solid pellet sodium hydroxide.
• the composition was prepared by adding the dioctylmethylamine oxide in the water to the sodium tripolyphosphate in a 1.5 liter ribbon blender. After the amine oxide was absorbed on the tripolyphosphate, the sodium hydroxide was slowly added and blended until uniform.

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