Bleach compositions containing metal bleach catalyst, and bleach activators and/or organic percarboxylic acids

US6399557B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Christopher Mark Perkins · Cincinnati, US
• Regine Labeque · Neder-Over-Heembeek, BE
• Barbara Kay Williams · Sharonville, US
• James Pyott Johnston · Overijse, BE
• David Johnathan Kitko · Sharonville, US
• James Charles Theophile Roger Burckett-St. Laurent · Lasne, BE
• Michael E. Burns · Sharonville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 4, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 11, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D3/3945
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Laundry or cleaning composition comprising: (a) an effective amount, preferably from about 0.0001% to about 99.9%, more typically from about 0.1% to about 25%, of a bleach activator and/or organic percarboxylic acid; (b) a catalytically effective amount, preferably from about 1 ppb to about 99.9%, of a transition-metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a cross-bridged macropolycyclic ligand; and (c) at least about 0.1% of one or more laundry or cleaning adjunct materials, preferably comprising an oxygen bleaching agent. Preferred compositions are laundry compositions and automatic dishwashing detergents which provide enhanced cleaning/bleaching benefits through the use of such catalysts in combination with bleach activators and/or organic percarboxylic acids.