Patent ID: 6995127

Claim:
A composition of matter comprising one or more sulfonated aromatic alkylates, which composition contains any amount between 30.00% and 82.00% by weight based upon the total weight of the mixture, including every hundredth percentage therebetween, of the 2-phenyl isomers of sulfonated aromatic alkylates described by the general formula: in which n may be equal to any integer between 4 and 16, wherein one and only one of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 and R 5 is selected from the group of: a sulfonic acid group or a sulfonate group, and wherein one and only one of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 , R 4 and R 5 is a substituent group that is selected from the group consisting of: methyl and ethyl.