Patent ID: 6696403
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: C07D,C11D

Abstract:
A laundry bleach composition, capable of bleaching in an air bleaching mode or peroxyl bleaching mode, comprising a ligand of general formula (L):R1R1Nâ€”Xâ€”NR1R1â€ƒâ€ƒ(L), wherein:X is selected from â€”CH2CH2â€”, â€”CH2CH2CH2â€”, â€”CH2C(OH)HCH2â€”; and, R1 independently represents a group selected from: alkyl, cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl, heteroaryl, aryl and arylalkyl groups optionally substituted with a substituent selected from hydroxy, alkoxy, phenoxy, carboxylate, carboxamide, carboxylic ester, sulphonate, amine, alkylamine and N+(R4)3, wherein R4 is selected from hydrogen, alkanyl, alkenyl, arylalkanyl, arylalkenyl, oxyalkanyl, oxyalkenyl, aminoalkanyl, aminoalkenyl, alkanyl ether, alkenyl ether, and â€”CY2â€”R2, in which Y is independently selected from H, CH3, C2H5, C3H7 and R2 is independently selected from: an optionally substituted: wherein R3 is independently selected from: H, alkyl, and benzyl, and wherein at least two of R1 are â€”CY2â€”R2 and R2 is not so substituted to form a benzimidazol group.