Patent ID: 8586063

Claim:
A compound obtained by reacting: (a) epoxides (I) which comprise two or three epoxide groups per molecule, with (b) compounds of the structure (II) in which: R 1 is hydrogen, C1-C3 alkyl, or R 3 R 2 is linear, branched or cyclic, saturated or olefinically mono- or polyunsaturated C2-C22 alkyl, R 3 is saturated C1-C3 alkyl substituted on one of the carbon atoms with —O—(CH 2 —CHZ—O) p —H, X, Y and Z, independently are hydrogen or methyl, n, m and p, independently are numbers in the range from 0 to 45, provided that at least one of n, m and p must be greater than zero, and further provided that the sum n+m+p must be in the range from 2 to 70, and (c) alcohols (III) of the formula R 4 —OH, in which R 4 is C6-C22 alkyl, with the proviso that the molar ratio of the reactants (I):(II):(III) is in the range from 1:(1 to 3):(0.05 to 1.95), and wherein the reaction is carried out at a temperature in the range from 50 to 200° C. and in the presence of a catalyst.