Disinfectant concentrate and its use as a mycobactericide and viricide

US5185145A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY · US

Inventors

• Heinz Eggensperger · Hamburg, DE
• Karl-Heinz Diehl · Norderstedt, DE
• Helmut Nolte · Norderstedt, DE
• Helmut Rackur · Bebensee, DE
• Ute Eggers-Maass · Hamburg, DE
• Michael Mohr · Kaltenkirchen, DE
• Lower Bernd · Hamburg, DE
• Wolfgang Beilfuss · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 21, 1991
• Grant date: Feb 9, 1993
• Expiry date: Feb 21, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC A): Human Necessities
• CPC primary: A01N47/44
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a disinfectant concentrate containing 10 to 60% by weight of phenoxyethanol or a phenoxypropanol mixture of 2-phenoxy-1-propanol and 1-phenoxy-2-propanol in a ratio by weight of from 1:4 to 1:20, 0.1 to 50% by weight of a cationic compound selected from the group of the guanidinium compounds, quaternary ammonium compounds or mixtures of these, 3 to 25% by weight of non-ionic surfactants and 0.1 to 10% by weight of an organic nitrogen-containing base having a pK.sub.B value of .gtoreq.4.75.