Patent ID: 8497314

Claim:
A curable liquid medium comprising: a) from 1 to 90 wt % of an alkyd-based resin; and, b) from 0.0001 to 0.1 wt % of a siccative, wherein the siccative is an iron or manganese complex of a tetradentate, pentadentate or hexadentate nitrogen donor ligand, wherein the ligand is: wherein: Q is independently selected from: p is 4; R is independently selected from: hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, CH2CH2OH, pyridin-2-ylmethyl, and CH2COOH; and R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are independently selected from H, C1-C4-alkyl, and C1-C4-alkylhydroxy.