Patent ID: 6987195

Claim:
An ester of alkoxylated aromatic alcohol and fatty carboxylic acid having the structure wherein R′ is an organic moiety including at least one aromatic nucleus R N that may be substituted or unsubstituted, said aromatic nucleus R N having from 6 to 20 carbon atoms exclusive of substitution and wherein R′ has the structure R N —(CH p ) n —, where —(CH p ) n — is an alkyl group, which may be straight-chain or branched, saturated or unsaturated, in which p is 0, 1, or 2, and n varies from 1 to 6 or R′ is a bisphenol; R″ is a fatty alkyl group, straight chain or branched, saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted, having from 1 to 39 carbon atoms; and ALK-O is an alkoxy spacer having m number of units of the structure —(R′″O) m —, which may be same or different, where m ranges from 1 to 300 and each R′″ is an alkyl group, straight-chain or branched, saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted, having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms.