Patent ID: 8097579
Filing Date: 2012-01-17
Classification: C11D

Abstract:
1. A laundry detergent or cleaning composition which comprises an amphiphilic water-soluble alkoxylated polyalkylenimine polymer comprising in condensed form repeating units of formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV) wherein # in each case denotes one-half of a bond between a nitrogen atom and the free binding position of a group A A E is independently selected from alkylenoxy units of the formula (V) wherein the individual alkoxylated polyalkylenimines consisting of 1 repeating unit of formula (I), x repeating units of formula (II), y repeating units of formula (III) and y+1 repeating units of formula (IV), wherein x and y in each case have a value in the range of from 0 to about 150; and the polymer having a backbone comprising the combined repeating units of formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV) excluding the alkylenoxy units E, where the average molecular weight, Mw, of the polyalkylenimine backbone in each case having a value in the range of from about 60 to about 10,000 g/mol; and the polymer comprising a degree of quaternization ranging from 0 to about 50.