Alcohol composition and derivatives thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9828573-B2
Application number	US-201615384344-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 20, 2016
Priority date	Dec 22, 2015
Publication date	Nov 28, 2017
Grant date	Nov 28, 2017

Abstract

The invention provides a composition comprising a mixture of pentadecanols wherein at least about 60 wt % of the mixture is linear pentadecanol and at least about 10 wt % of the mixture is branched pentadecanols wherein the branched pentadecanols have branching on the second carbon atom. The mixture of pentadecanols may be converted to one or more derivatives, and these derivatives may be used in laundry detergents, cleaning products or as an agricultural adjuvant, an emulsifying agent, a lubricant additive, a pour point depressant, or a personal care ingredient.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A composition comprising a mixture of pentadecanols wherein at least about 60 wt % of the mixture is linear pentadecanol and at least about 10 wt % of the mixture is branched pentadecanols wherein the branched pentadecanols have branching on the second carbon atom.

2. The composition of claim 1 wherein at least about 70 wt % of the mixture is linear pentadecanol.

3. The composition of claim 1 wherein at least about 15 wt % of the mixture if branched pentadecanols.

4. A composition comprising one or more derivatives of the pentadecanol mixture as claimed in claim 1 .

5. The composition of claim 4 wherein the derivatives comprise esters of dicarboxylic acids, esters of polycarboxylic acids, alkoxylated alcohols, sulfated alcohols, sulfated alkoxylated alcohols and alcohol ether amines.

6. The composition of claim 4 wherein the derivative comprises a diester of the pentadecanol mixture with one or more diacids.

7. The composition of claim 6 wherein the diacids comprise phthalic acid, adipic acid, sebacic acid and succinic acid.

8. The composition of claim 4 wherein the derivative comprises a polyester of the pentadecanol mixture with one or more polyacids.

9. The composition of claim 8 wherein the polyacid comprises trimellitic acid.

10. The composition of claim 4 wherein the derivatives comprise a polyalkoxylate, sulfate, sulfated polyalkoxylate or ether amine.

11. A hard surface cleaning formulation comprising the composition of claim 10 .

12. A laundry detergent formulation comprising the composition of claim 10 .

13. The use of the composition of claim 4 as an agricultural adjuvant, an emulsifying agent, a lubricant additive, a pour point depressant, or a personal care ingredient.

14. The composition of claim 1 wherein at least about 65 wt % of the mixture is linear pentadecanol and at least about 15 wt % of the mixture is branched pentadecanols.

15. The composition of claim 1 wherein from 60-80 wt % of the mixture is linear pentadecanol.

16. The composition of claim 1 wherein from 10-25 wt % of the mixture is branched pentadecanols.

Assignees

• Shell Oil Co

Inventors

• Sharko Paul Theodore

Classifications

• C10N2020/069

  Linear chain compounds · CPC title

• C10M129/72

  of polycarboxylic acids · CPC title

• C11D3/2006

  Monohydric alcohols · CPC title

• C10M2215/02

  Amines, e.g. polyalkylene polyamines; Quaternary amines · CPC title

• C10M2215/042

  containing hydroxy groups; Alkoxylated derivatives thereof · CPC title