Intermediates and surfactants useful in household cleaning and personal care compositions, and methods of making the same

US8933131B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Procter & Gamble Company · US

Inventors

• Thomas Walter Federle · Cincinnati, US
• Jeffrey John Scheibel · Loveland, US
• Zaiyou Liu · Sharonville, US
• Phillip Kyle Vinson · Lancaster, US
• Howard David Hutton, III · Cincinnati, US
• John David Carter · Bolingbrook, US
• Charles Winston Saunders · Fairfield, US
• Jun Xu · Mason, US
• Phillip Richard Green · Moneta, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 11, 2011
• Grant date: Jan 13, 2015
• Expiry date: Mar 6, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C12Y604/01003
• WIPO field: Biotechnology
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Disclosed herein are novel mixtures of scattered-branched chain fatty acids and derivatives of scattered-branched chain fatty acids. Further disclosed are uses of these mixtures in cleaning compositions (e.g., dishcare, laundry, hard surface cleaners) and/or personal care compositions (e.g., skin cleansers, shampoo, hair conditioners).