Process for preparing ether-capped poly(oxyalkylated) alcohol surfactants

US6576799B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Larry E. Miller · Bettendorf, US
• Donald Levengood · Sharonville, US
• Mark Robert Sivik · Lancaster, US
• Bernard William Kluesener · Cadiz, US
• Terry Franklin Formyduval · Cincinnati, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 4, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 10, 2003
• Expiry date: May 4, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08G2650/34
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for preparing an ether-capped poly(oxyalkylated) alcohol surfactant which results in the absence of metallic catalyst component residues from the ether-capped poly(oxyalkylated) alcohol surfactant.