Acetylenic diol ethylene oxide/propylene oxide adducts and processes for their manufacture
Patent 6864395 Issued on March 8, 2005. Estimated Expiration Date: October 11, 2021. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
568/606, Plural oxyalkylene groups bonded directly to each other568/613, Acyclic568/616, Carbon to carbon unsaturation containing568/618Preparing from organic hydroxy containing compound (H of -OH may be replaced by a Group IA or IIA light metal)
This invention provides water-based compositions, particularly coating, ink, fountain solution and agricultural compositions, manifesting reduced equilibrium and dynamic surface tension by the incorporation of a surface tension reducing amount of an acetylenic diol ethylene oxide/propylene oxide adduct of the structure: where r and t are 1 or 2, (n+m) is 1 to 30 and (p+q) is 1 to 30.Also disclosed is a method for making random and block EO/PO adducts of acetylenic diols by reacting an acetylenic diol with EO and/or PO in the presence of a trialkylamine or Lewis acid.
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