Produits Chimiques Ugine Kuhlmann

Michel Bakes

Marie-Christine Daude-Lagrave

Jean-Pierre Schirmann

Bernard Dubreux

Serge Y Delavarenne

Michel Demarcq

Serge-Yvon Delavarenne

Michel Roche

Percompound activators comprising .alpha.-acyloxy-N-acylacetamides having the formula ##STR1## where R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, and R.sub.5 are hydrogen or hydrocarbon radicals optionally substituted by other groups, used to activate percompounds in oxidizing and bleaching of textile fibers, oils, fats, and waxes, for cosmetic hair and skin treatment, metal surface passivation, purification, disinfection, and sterilization, the activators providing more rapid action at a given temperature and being useful at lower temperatures.

Percompound activators

Phosphorus-containing activators for percompounds, the activators being tris(acetoxymethyl) phosphine oxide and its precursors including tris(acetoxymethyl) phosphine and tetrakis(acetoxymethyl) phosphonium compounds, together with the use of such activators with percompounds for oxidizing or bleaching such as in bleaching fibers, oils, fats, and waxes, cosmetological treatment of hair and skin, metallic surface passivation, and purification, disinfection and sterilization techniques, the use of such activators providing more rapid action at a given temperature or equal activity at a lower temperature.

Phosphorus activators for percompounds

Novel percompound activators having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 are the same or different and are hydrogen or certain substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched chain alkyl radicals, cycloalkyl radicals, or hydrocarbon radicals containing at least one aromatic ring, or R.sub.5 and/or R.sub.6 are COR.sub.7, where R.sub.7 is hydrogen or certain substituted or unsubstituted straight or branched chain alkyl radicals or hydrocarbon radicals containing at least one aromatic ring, the activators producing more rapid bleaching or oxidation at a given temperature or the same bleaching effect at a lower temperature and being useful for bleaching textile fibers, oils, fats, and waxes; hair and skin treatment; metal surface passivation; or purifying, sterilizing and disinfecting techniques.

Activators for percompounds

Hydrogen peroxide-containing acidic baths for pickling metals, the bath compositions being stabilized according to the invention so that the baths can be used over long periods of time without appreciable decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, such baths containing from about 10 to 400 g/liter of sulfuric acid, 2 to 80 g/liter of 100% hydrogen peroxide, and 10 to 500 mg/liter of an oxyquinoline derivative stabilizer, the compositions optionally containing a surface active agent, and/or from 0.3 to 2 g/liter of fatty alcohol-ethylene oxide polycondensate stabilizer as well as methods for pickling metals using such baths.

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