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Fritz-Feo Grabley

Gerd Reinhardt

Hanspeter Gethoffer

Walter Rupp

Georg Bader

Roland Steinl

Hajime Endo

The process for the preparation of acyloxybenzenesulfonic acids of the general formula ##STR1## in which R denotes a (C.sub.1 -C.sub.17)-alkyl or (C.sub.2 -C.sub.17)-alkenyl radical, or alkali metal, alkaline earth metal or ammonium salts thereof, is carried out in the following stages: (a) sulfonation of phenol, (b) heat treatment of the phenolsulfonic acid formed as the intermediate product, (c) esterification of the phenolsulfonic acid and, if appropriate, (d) neutralization of the resulting (C.sub.2 -C.sub.18)-acyloxybenzenesulfonic acid. As a result of the incorporation of stage (b), the process affords products in which the proportion of the 1,4-isomer compared with the 1,2-isomer is markedly increased, as a result of which these products can be used, in particular, as perborate activators in detergents.

Process for the preparation of acyloxybenzenesulfonic acids and their

Use of triacylated ethanolamines as liquid, water-miscible peroxide activators Triacylated ethanolamines of the formula

Use of triacylated ethanolamines as liquid, water-miscible peroxide

A process for the preparation of acyloxybenzenesulfonic acids and salts thereof, of the formula ##STR1## in which R is C.sub.1 -C.sub.17 -alkyl or C.sub.2 -C.sub.17 -alkenyl and M is an alkali or alkaline earth metal, ammonium or hydrogen, including the stages of (a) sulfonation of phenol, if appropriate (b) thermal treatment of the sulfonated phenol, (c) esterification of the sulfonated phenol and if appropriate (d) neutralization of the ester, wherein the sulfonation of the phenol is carried out with sulfuric acid or oleum and the water of reaction is removed during or after stage (b) by distillation and/or by reaction with a dehydrating agent.

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