Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.

The Procter Gamble Company

Takahiro Tsumori

Shigeru Yamaguchi

Atsuro Yoneda

Yoshikazu Fujii

Masato Nakano

Akihiko Kanzaki

Takuya Saeki

Akiko Hemmi

Noboru Sakamoto

Norihiro Wakao

Yuki Sano

Koji Fukuhara

Kaori Nakatani

Hidekazu Kozuki

Hideo Wakami

Daisuke Hattori

Provided is a method of producing a polycarboxylic acid-based polymer, the method including adding a monomer composition containing an unsaturated monocarboxylic acid-based monomer and/or an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid-based monomer to a reaction vessel to perform a polymerization reaction, which enables effective suppression of the foaming of a polymerization reaction liquid. The method of producing a polycarboxylic acid-based polymer of the present invention is a method of producing a polycarboxylic acid-based polymer, the method including adding a monomer composition containing an unsaturated monocarboxylic acid-based monomer and/or an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid-based monomer to a reaction vessel to perform a polymerization reaction, the method further including adding a defoaming agent by a time when 100 mass % of a total amount of the monomer composition is added.

Method for producing polycarboxylic acid polymer

Provided is a copolymer aqueous solution which exerts a high calcium carbonate-deposition suppressing ability even under high hardness condition, has excellent storage stability, and suppresses coloring of a detergent to yellow even when used as a detergent raw material. The water-soluble copolymer aqueous solution includes a water-soluble copolymer and hydrogen peroxide as essential components, in which: the water-soluble copolymer at least includes, as its structure, a structural unit originating from a monoethylenic unsaturated dicarboxylic acid (or dicarboxylate) monomer having 4 to 6 carbon atoms or its anhydride (a) at 30 to 60 mol %, a structural unit originating from a monoethylenic unsaturated monocarboxylic acid (or monocarboxylate) monomer having 3 to 8 carbon atoms (b), and a structural unit originating from a monoethylenic unsaturated monomer having a sulfonic (or sulfonate) group (c); the water-soluble copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 or more and 50,000 or less; the water-soluble copolymer aqueous solution has a weight ratio of the hydrogen peroxide of 10 ppm to 50,000 ppm with respect to a solid content of the water-soluble copolymer aqueous solution; and the water-soluble copolymer aqueous solution has a weight ratio of water of 33% to 99%.

Sulfonic group-containing, maleic acid-based, water-soluble copolymer aqueous solution and powder obtained by drying the aqueous solution

The present invention provides a method for efficiently producing a sulfonic acid group-containing ether compound having a high purity and a good polymerizability while preventing production of a byproduct, and provides a sulfonic acid group-containing ether compound containing fewer impurities and having a good radical (co)polymerizability. The present invention provides a method of producing a sulfonic acid group-containing ether compound by reacting a sulfurous acid compound with a compound represented by the formula (1): 

Manufacturing method for sulfonic acid group-containing ether compound

Laundry detergents or cleaning compositions which comprises a copolymer composition comprising i) a copolymer having a weight-average molecular weight of from about 10,000 to about 50,000 and comprising a) 30-60 mol% structural units derived from monoethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or dicarboxylate; b) structural units derived from monoethylenically unsaturated monocarboxylic acid or monocarboxylate; c) structural units derived from monomers containing sulfonic acid or sulfonate groups and having no ester bonds or amido bonds; and ii) 10,000 ppm or less of residual monoethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or dicarboxylate monomer.

Cleaning compositions with monocarboxylic acid monomers dicarboxylic monomers, and monomers comprising sulfonic acid groups

An ADW composition comprising a builder and a water-soluble copolymer which comprises: (a) from about 30 to 60 mol % of the copolymer having a structural unit originating from a monoethylenic unsaturated dicarboxylic acid (or dicarboxylate) monomer having 4 to 6 carbon atoms or its anhydride at; (b) from about 30 to 60 mol % of the copolymer having a structural unit originating from a monoethylenic unsaturated monocarboxylic acid (or monocarboxylate) monomer having 3 to 8 carbon atoms; and (c) from about 5 to 15 mol % of the polymer having a structural unit originating from a monoethylenic unsaturated monomer having a sulfonic (or sulfonate) group; wherein the water-soluble copolymer has a weight average molecular weight of from about 1,000 to about 50,000 wherein the copolymer is polymerized with hydrogen peroxide.

Automatic dishwashing composition containing a sulfonated copolymer

To provide a continuous production method for producing a water-soluble polymer with a narrow molecular weight distribution with high efficiency. A continuous production method of a water-soluble polymer, comprising the steps of: circulating a circulation liquid containing a monomer having a polymerizable unsaturated bond through a reaction apparatus: having a tank and a circulation line comprising a piping circulating outside the tank, and thereby producing a water-soluble polymer continuously; and discharging part of the circulation liquid from a discharge line, wherein the circulation line is provided with a cooling device at least at one position.

Continuous production method of water-soluble polymer and water-soluble polymer

A hydrophilic graft polymer having the reducing amount of the residual unsaturated monocarboxylic acid, and having very excellent temporal stability is provided. The present invention relates to the hydrophilic graft polymer obtained by graft polymerization of monomer component containing unsaturated monocarboxylic acid onto polyalkylene oxide, wherein mole ratio of side chain moiety derived from the unsaturated monocarboxylic acid is more than 90% by mole relative to total side chain, and residual amount of unsaturated monocarboxylic acid is less than 200 ppm by mass relative to the total mass of said hydrophilic graft polymer.

Hydrophilic graft polymer

To provide: a water-soluble amphoteric copolymer having excellent hydrophilicity and high adsorption capability, and capable of exhibiting dramatically excellent dispersibility even under high hardness conditions and being preferably used in a detergent composition application, for example; an application thereof; and a production method of such a water-soluble amphoteric copolymer. A water-soluble amphoteric copolymer produced by a copolymerization of a monomer component comprising a cationic monomer (a), an anionic monomer (b), and an unsaturated polyalkylene glycol monomer (c), wherein the monomer (b) is a carboxyl group-containing monomer and/or a sulfonic acid group-containing monomer (d), and the monomer (b) is more than 50% by mole relative to 100% by mole of a total amount of the monomers (a), (b), and (c) if the monomer (b) consists of the carboxyl-group containing monomer, and at least one species of monomer among the monomers (a), (d), and (c) is 30% by mole or less relative to 100% by mole of a total amount of the monomers (a), (d), and (c) if the monomer (b) comprises the sulfonic acid group-containing monomer (d).

Water-soluble amphoteric copolymer, production method thereof, and application thereof

There are disclosed a novel sulfur-containing poly(unsaturated carboxylic acid) and its uses and production process. A sulfur-containing poly(unsaturated carboxylic acid) having a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of 500 to 4,500 and a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of not more than 2.5 is obtained by a production process comprising the step of polymerizing an unsaturated carboxylic acid in the presence of a polymerization initiator to thereby obtain the poly(unsaturated carboxylic acid), wherein: a combination of a persulfate and a bisulfite is used as the polymerization initiator, wherein the polymerization initiator is adjusted in such a manner that: the total amount of the polymerization initiator as used is not smaller than 10 g equivalents per 1 mol of the unsaturated carboxylic acid as used, and the amount of the bisulfite accounts for not smaller than 8 g equivalents of the total amount of the polymerization initiator as used; and the polymerization temperature is controlled so as to be in the range of 25 to 99&#xb0; C. This polymer is used as an essential component of a detergent builder and a kaolin dispersant.

Sulfur-containing poly (unsaturated carboxylic acid) and its uses and production process

A liquid detergent builder which is highly compatible with a surfactant and gives transparent liquid detergents having extremely excellent detergency, a liquid detergent containing the builder, and a liquid detergent containing an acrylic acid-based polymer (salt) having excellent clay dispersibility and good compatibility with a surfactant. The liquid detergent builder comprises an acrylic acid/maleic acid-based copolymer (salt), wherein the acrylic acid/maleic acid-based copolymer (salt) contains maleic acid (salt) in an amount of 5-90 mol % per mole of the sum of acrylic acid (salt) and maleic acid (salt), and a product (MA&#xd7;Mw) of a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of the copolymer (salt) and a proportion (MA (mol %)) of the maleic acid (salt) in the copolymer (salt) is 450,000 or less.

Liquid detergent builder and liquid detergent containing the same

This invention concerns a (meth)acrylic acid type polymer, wherein the value S representing the quantity of an sulfur element introduced which is defined by the formula, S=(quantity of S contained in polymer)/(total quantity of S)&#xd7;100, is not less than 35. This (meth)acrylic acid type polymer is a water-soluble polymer of a low molecular weight which has only a small impurity content, entails no precipitation of an impurity during the preservation at a low temperature, and excels in dispersibility, chelating ability, and an anti-gelling property.

(Meth)acrylic acid type polymer and unsaturated polyalkylene glycol type copolymer, and methods for production thereof

A detergent composition containing at least 0.1% by weight of at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of 1) a polycarboxylic acid-based polymer containing a polyalkylene glycol chain in the structure thereof, 2) a sulfonic acid group-terminated (meth)acrylic acid-based polymer, and 3) an acrylic acid (salt)-maleic acid (salt)-based copolymer having a clay dispersibility under a condition of 50 ppm of calcium carbonate of 0.3 or more; and at least 0.5% by weight of a longer alkyl chain mid-chain branched surfactant compound. The detergent composition can enhance anti-gelling properties to calcium ions, improve the dispersibility to solid particles at low temperatures or under high-hardness conditions, and improve detergency against stains such as mud and carbon black.

Specific polymer-compounded detergent composition

This invention concerns a (meth)acrylic acid type polymer, wherein the value S representing the quantity of an sulfur element introduced which is defined by the formula, S=(quantity of S contained in polymer)/(total quantity of S)&#xd7;100, is not less than 35. This (meth) acrylic acid type polymer is a water-soluble polymer of a low molecular weight which has only a small impurity content, entails no precipitation of an impurity during the preservation at a low temperature, and excels in dispersibility, chelating ability, and an anti-gelling property.

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