Eastman Chemical Company

Matthew Allen Boone

Frederick Ignatz-Hoover

Donald L Fields, Jr

Neil Warren Boaz

Bin Wang

David William Norman

Robert Joseph Maleski

Christopher Harlan Burk

Wesley Wayne McConnell

Eduardo Gallas Cervo

Tabatha Stearns

Jennifer A Fish

Peter Borden Mackenzie

Elaine Beatrice Mackenzie

Stephanie Kay Clendennen

Damon Ray Billodeaux

Kristof Moonen

Kim Dumoleijn

Vasudev R Bhonde

Stijn Simonne Paul Van De Vyver

Dustin John Czirr

Jennifer Michelle Lloyd

Robert Thomas Hembre

William Christopher Ketchie

Wesley Wayne Mcconnell

Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters having a plurality of pivaloyl substituents and a plurality of aryl-acyl substituents are disclosed along with methods for making the same. Such cellulose esters may be suitable for use in films, such as +A optical films, and/or +C optical films. Optical films prepared employing such cellulose esters have a variety of commercial applications, such as, for example, as compensation films in liquid crystal displays and/or waveplates in creating circular polarized light used in 3-D technology.

Regioselectively substituted cellulose esters and films made therefrom

Disclosed are aromatic enol ethers that have utility as film-hardening additives for coating formulations. The aromatic enol ethers have particular utility as film-hardening additives for water-based coating formulations. The aromatic enol ethers provide improvements in hardness and hardness related properties such as block resistance without contributing to the volatile organic content of the composition.

Aromatic enol ether paint additives

Disclosed are a variety of amphoteric ester sulfonates, including 3-(N, N-dimethyl-cocoylpropylammonio-1-yl)-2-hydroxypropanesulfonate. These amphoteric ester sulfonates can be advantageously prepared in high yield and purity by a two-step chemoenzymatic process, and have excellent surfactant properties.

Amphoteric ester sulfonates

The invention provides branched trialkylamine oxides with improved properties. The trialkylamine oxides of the invention produced from branched trialkylamines, in one embodiment, can be made using certain branched C10-12 enals and aldehydes. The invention also provides an trialkylamine oxide having the formula: wherein R5, R6 and R7 are independently at least one of C3H7, C2H5, CH3, or H, or mixtures thereof; and wherein R5 and R6 are not H at the same time. In one embodiment, the trialkylamine oxides of the invention can be useful in making various products, for example, as surfactants.

Branched trialkyl amine oxides

Disclosed are enol ethers compounds. The enol ethers exhibit low volatile organic content and are useful in a variety of chemical applications. The enol ethers can be used in applications as diluents, wetting agents, coalescing aids, paint additives and as intermediates in chemical processes. The enol ethers also have particular utility as film-hardening additives in coating formulations.

Enol ethers

Aromatic enol ethers

Disclosed is a method for making aromatic enol ethers that have utility as film-hardening additives for coating formulations. The aromatic enol ethers have particular utility as film-hardening additives for water-based coating formulations. The aromatic enol ethers provide improvements in hardness and hardness related properties such as block resistance without contributing to the volatile organic content of the composition.

Process to make aromatic enol ethers and olefin isomers of aromatic enol ethers

Disclosed are novel aromatic enol ethers. The aromatic enol ethers exhibit low volatile organic content and are reactive film-hardening compounds. The aromatic enol ethers are useful in a variety of chemical applications. The aromatic enol ethers can be used in applications as plasticizers, diluents, wetting agents, coalescing aids and as intermediates in chemical processes. The aromatic enol ethers also have utility as film-hardening additives for coating formulations.

Disclosed are aromatic dicarbinol compounds that may have utility in a variety of chemical applications such as plasticizers, diluents, wetting agents and paint additives and as intermediates in chemical processes. The aromatic dicarbinols have particular utility as reactants in processes for the synthesis of aromatic enol ether compounds.

Aromatic dicarbinols

The surfactants which can be produced from the trialkylamine intermediates include the quaternary ammonium compounds of formula: 

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