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Erich Hoffmann

Erwin Dietz

Rolf Kleber

Hans-Walter Bucking

Adolf May

Joachim Weide

Wolfgang Wagemann

Hans Ludwig Panke

Gunther Tauber

Bisphenol derivatives, process for their manufacture, and their use as

Quaternary ammonium compounds of the formula 1 ##STR1## in which R is C.sub.8 -C.sub.30 -alkyl or alkenyl; R.sub.1 is alkyl, 2-hydroxyalkyl or alkenyl each having from 8 to 30 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or benzyl; A is a group of the formulae ##STR2## B is A or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylene, X and Y are hydrogen or methyl with the proviso that X and Y are not simultaneously methyl; m is 1 or 2; n is a number of from 1 to 20; and A.sup.(-) is an anion; a process for the preparation thereof, and their use as fabric softeners.

Quaternary ammonium compounds

Use of quaternary ether amines of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is a saturated or unsaturated alkyl radical of from 12 to 24 carbon atoms, X and Y stand for hydrogen or methyl, but do not both represent methyl at the same time, n is a number of from 1 to 5, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 stand for alkyl of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and A is the methosulfate, chloride, or the dimetho- or triethophosphate anion, as processing agents in the preparation and processing of native and synthetic fibers.

Use of quaternary ether amines as fiber processing agents

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