Ammonium compounds, preparation thereof and use thereof as cleaning agent, cosmetic raw material and softener, in particular as final-rinse fabric softner

US5254271A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rewo Chemische Werke GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Ingo Hamann · Mount Olive, US
• Elke Hohn · Schlüchtern, DE
• Hans-Jurgen Kohle · Leingarten, DE
• Winfried Wehner · Hachenburg, DE
• Joachim Weigand · Alzenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 1992
• Grant date: Oct 19, 1993
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2012

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D3/0015
• WIPO field: Pharmaceuticals
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Ammonium compounds and the use thereof as fabric softener comprising mixtures of quaternary ammonium compounds with or without ester groups prepared by reacting amines with dimerized fatty acids and subsequent quaternization or protonation with inorganic or organic acids.