Patent ID: 8846596

Claim:
A liquid cleaning composition comprising: a. a metal bleach catalyst which is a complex of a transition-metal and a macrocyclic ligand, the ligand of the metal bleach catalyst having a calculated Octanol/Water Partition Coefficient value of from about −1.50 to about −0.10; b. from about 5% to about 40%, by weight, of a formulation enabling fraction comprising at least one formulation enabling ingredient, the formulation enabling fraction having a Hydrophilic Index of from about 4.0 to about 10.0; and c. from about 0.1% to about 5.0% by weight of a formulation deactivating fraction comprising at least one formulation deactivating ingredient that has a calculated Octanol/Water Partition Coefficient value of from about −3.5 to about −0.10; and d. water; wherein the transition-metal of the metal bleach catalyst is manganese-based and the macrocyclic ligand of the transition-metal bleach catalyst has the following structure: wherein n and m are integers individually selected from 1 and 2; and A and B are independently selected from a group consisting of hydrogen or methyl, ethyl, propyl, isopropyl, butyl, isobutyl, sec-butyl, tert-butyl, C 5 -C 20 alkyl, and benzyl, optionally substituted with moieties selected from the group consisting of COOM, wherein M is selected from H and a charge balancing metal ion, CN and mixtures thereof; wherein the at least one formulation enabling ingredient comprises an anionic surfactant selected from a group consisting of linear alkylbenzene sulfonate, alkyl ethoxysulfate, and mixtures thereof; wherein the at least one formulation deactivating ingredient comprises a catechol moiety of the following formula: or the deprotonated or partially deprotonated version thereof, wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 may be independently selected from H, R 5 , —SO 3 , COOH, COOR 6 and OR 7 , wherein R 5 -R 7 are independently selected from alkyl groups; wherein the metal bleach catalyst has an aged activity that is greater than about 70% of an original activity after the composition is stored for two weeks at 40° C.; and wherein the composition has a pH of from 4 to 7.