Abstract: The invention describes a new calcium phosphate cement powder, whose composition can best be described over the Ca/P molar ratio range of 1.35 to 1.40, most preferably 1.39, and whose two components were prepared by wet chemical synthesis procedures. One component is chemically-synthesized, bi-phasic alpha-TCP (Ca3(PO4)2, 95 wt %)+HA (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2, 5 wt %) powder, while the second component is again a chemically-synthesized, single-phase DCPD (CaHPO4·2H2O) powder. A setting solution (Na2HPO4·2H2O) is used to form a self-setting calcium phosphate cement from the powder mixture. This cement can be used as bone filler or bone substitute in applications, which require higher rates of resorption.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cement, which comprises in its main phase of microcrystalline magnesium ammonium phosphate and nanoapatite after hardening and thus at the same time has considerable strength. The material is biologically degradable and is suitable for application in tooth cements, as bone replacement, as bone filler, as bone cement or as bone adhesive.

Abstract: The invention relates to dental materials which contain hydrolysis-resistant phosphonic acids with ethylenically unsaturated double bonds and which are especially suitable for use as adhesion promoters.

Abstract: A dental composite having high filler loading and low shrinkage thereby providing good strength and marginal integrity. Through the use of prepolymerized filler particles in combination with a structural filler and a nanofiller, the composite exhibits very low shrinkage and is useful in stress bearing restorations and in cosmetic restorations. The structural filler used is ground to a mean particle size of less than 0.5 ?m and the nanofiller has discrete particles of a mean particle size less than 100 nm to improve handling and mechanical characteristics. The prepolymerized filler particles also allow for less viscosity and better handling characteristics of the composite.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a mixture comprising alpha CaSO4×½ H2O, CaSO4×2 H2O, a combination of a hardening accelerator, a hardening retarder and a setting expansion inhibitor, and optionally a surfactant. The mixture can be used to prepare a die having an extremely high setting expansion.

Abstract: A paste type dental glass ionomer cement composition in paste type using no polymerizable monomer, that is good in operationality with excellent inherent characteristics of glass ionomer cement maintained, is constituted with a first paste and a second paste, in which the first paste contains 30 to 70% by weight of a polymer of an ?-? unsaturated carboxylic acid and 30 to 70% by weight of water, and the second paste contains 50 to 85% by weight of fluoroaluminosilicate glass, 0.005 to 1% by weight of a water soluble thickening agent and the remaining percentage by weight of water, the mixing amount of the water soluble thickening agent being preferably 0.01 to 0.4% by weight.

Abstract: The invention refers to a dental composition kit which comprises a combination of (A) a one-pack primer composition containing (a) an acid group-having polymerizable monomer and (b) an aromatic secondary amine and/or an aromatic tertiary amine, and (B) a cement composition containing (c) a polyalkenoic acid, (d) an ion-leachable glass filler, (e) a polymerizable monomer, (f) water, (g) a peroxide and (h) a salt of an aromatic sulfinic acid. A dental composition kit of this invention is easy to handle, and the cured product of the compositions bonds well to teeth. The kit is useful in restoring decayed or injured teeth and in bonding prostheses to teeth.

Abstract: Cement materials useful in dental and medical fields with improved mechanical properties is described. The cement material includes fluoroaluminosilicate powder and poly(acrylic acid) liquid. Biocompatible oxide powders are further included resulting in improved mechanical properties of maximum strength, rigidity and toughness. Variations of the cement material resulting in improved mechanical properties include the concentration of poly(acrylic acid) liquid, and combining the fluoroaluminosilicate powder with different biocompatible oxide powders. Useful oxide powders include hydroxyapatite powders, titanium oxide, zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, and silica-containing e-glass powder. Preferably, about 10 vol. % of total amount of oxide powders is used to obtain optimum improvements. The total amount can be based on incorporation of a single or a combination of selected oxide powders.

Abstract: Minute fibers are added to an alginate to form a fiber-alginate mixture or compound. The minute fibers may be man made such as nylon or may be natural such as hemp. The fiber-alginate mixture or compound is used in forming a mold, which may be used in casting directly from the human body. The addition of the minute fibers to the alginate creates enormous tear strength, which is far better than the tear strength of the alginate alone. The alginate and the fibers should be mixed in an alginate to fiber ratio by weight of about twenty-four to one for a natural fiber and a ratio of four to one for a man made fiber.

Abstract: A method of restoring a tooth cavity is conducted by a direct or indirect method with a visible light curable nanocomposite of a dental restorative material with a low polymerization shrinkage, wherein the dental restorative material comprises an epoxy resin, inorganic oxide nano particles, a photoinitiator and a photosensitizer. The direct method involves the filling of the tooth cavity with the nanocomposite dental restorative material, stacking the nanocomposite dental restorative material in the tooth cavity, and curing with visible light followed by shaping and polishing. The indirect method involves making a mold of the tooth, casting the mold with the nanocomposite dental restorative material, curing with visible light followed by shaping and polishing, then removing the shaped and polished material and adhering it to the tooth cavity.

Abstract: The invention provides processes for making low viscosity condensates, condensates per se, and processes for making polymers from these condensates. The invention also encompasses the polymer products of these processes, especially articles for dental use. The condensates per se of the invention are of hydrolyzable silanes. The condensates can contain one or more elements selected from the group consisting of B, AI, P, Sn, Pb, the transition metals, the lanthanides and the actinides. Processes of the invention for making polymers from the condensates optionally include use of compounds that can be polymerized ionically or by radical reactions in addition to the hydrolyzable silanes. Curing of the polymers is optionally performed by photochemical, thermal or by redox-induction methods.

Abstract: Amorphous inorganic particles as a dental material includes silica and inorganic oxide(s) other than silica and has high x-ray impermeability. The inorganic particles as a dental material includes silica with the content in the range from 70 to 98 weight % and oxide(s) of one or more elements selected from the group of Zr, Ti, La, Ba, Sr, Hf, Y, Zn, AL, and B, wherein 5 to 70 weight % of the silica is originated from an acidic silicic acid solution and 30 to 95 weight % of the silica is originated from a sol of silica. The inorganic particles as a dental material have an average particle diameter in the range from 1 to 10 ?m, specific surface area in the range from 50 to 350 m2/g, pore volume in the range from 0.05 to 0.5 ml/g, amorphous crystallinity as observed by x-ray diffraction, and the refractive index in the range from 1.47 to 1.60.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a synthetic biomaterial compound based on stabilized calcium phosphates and more particularly to the molecular, structural and physical characterization of this compound. The compound comprises calcium, oxygen and phosphorous, wherein at least one of the elements is substituted with an element having an ionic radius of approximately 0.1 to 1.1 ?. The knowledge of the specific molecular and chemical properties of the compound allows for the development of several uses of the compound in various bone-related clinical conditions.

Abstract: A dental bleaching composition having enhanced effectiveness and reduced sensitivity, its method of use, and a kit containing the ingredients for making the composition. The dental bleaching composition comprises a bleaching agent, an inert gelling agent, a pH modifying agent, a discrete inert particulate laser enhancing material, and optionally a transparency modifying agent in the form of a gel with a pH of about 9.5 to 11. The dental bleaching composition is placed on the teeth to be bleached, exposed to laser light for a desired period of time, and removed. The process is then repeated for one or more cycles until the desired degree of bleaching is achieved. Neutral sodium fluoride is then applied to the bleached teeth for at least 10 minutes to reduce or eliminate post-bleaching sensitivity.

Abstract: A fast-setting, bioresorbable calcium phosphate cement is prepared by a process which can be carried out with a heat treatment up to 1000° C. on a mixture of a wetting solution and a calcium phosphate powder having a Ca to P molar ratio of 0.5-2.5. The wetting solution suitable for use in the process of the present invention includes water, an organic solvent, an acidic and basic solution. A setting solution for mixing with the heated powder to form the fast-setting, bioresorbable calcium phosphate cement may be water, an acidic or basic solution according to the process of the present invention.

Abstract: Methods are provide for producing flowable compositions, e.g. pastes, that set into calcium phosphate products. In the subject methods, dry reactants that include a calcium source and a phosphate source are combined with a silicate-phosphate setting fluid, and the combined liquids and solids are mixed to produce the flowable composition. Also provided are the compositions themselves as well as kits for preparing the same. The subject methods and compositions produced thereby find use in a variety of applications, including the repair of hard tissue defects, e.g., bone defects.

Abstract: A fast-setting two-part calcium phosphate cement formulation that, when mixed, is capable of hardening and forming an integral mass in less than four minutes. The integral mass is approximately 2 to 10 wt % carbonate-substituted hydroxyapatite that has a calcium/phosphate molar ratio of about 1.33 to 2.0. The cement formulation contains: (a) ultra-fine dry powder ingredients, with an average particle size smaller than 2 &mgr;m (preferably smaller than 0.5 &mgr;m and most preferably smaller than 100 nanometers) in diameter, comprising a partially neutralized phosphoric acid, a calcium phosphate source, and calcium carbonate in an amount ranging from about 9.33 to 70 wt % of the dry powder ingredients; and (b) a physiologically acceptable aqueous lubricant solution selected from the group consisting of 0.01 to 2M sodium phosphate solution at pH 6 to 11 and 0.

Abstract: The invention concerns injectable bone filling cements, in particular hydraulic calcium phosphate cements, the latter being prepared from at least two initial liquid or pasty constituents comprising each a species reactive in solution or in suspension, the solidification process being initiated when said constituents are being mixed.

Abstract: A chemically bonded ceramic material based on calcium aluminate hydrate with additives of primarily calcium titanate, but also chemically similar compounds. The material is a biocompatible material for implants, particularly for orthopaedic and dental applications. The material possesses the properties required for an orthopaedic biocement. It cures through reaction with water and develops its strength within a short period of time, has good workability prior to curing, is shape stable, has a low heat generation during curing, and is friendly to adjacent tissues.

Abstract: The invention is intended to introduce cells easily into a ceramics for in vivo use. Also, the invention provides a ceramics for in vivo use which has a good affinity to a living body and no harmful action on a living body. The invention relates to a porous ceramics having many almost globular pores and made of a component comprising a calcium phosphate type. These pores are brought into contact and communicated with each other to thereby exhibit permeability. The permeability was designed to be 150 centidarcy or more and 8000 centidarcy or less.

Abstract: A white, substantially non-iron containing dental material formed from Portland cement. The material may be a dental cement, dental restorative or the like.

Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides novel and unique fused fibrous compounds for addition to and manufacture of bone and dental cement systems and methods of making the same. The preferred embodiment of the fused fibrous compound material made therefrom comprises a rigid three-dimensional network of fibers fused together at their points of contact wherein said network is greater than 60% by volume void space, has mean pore diameters greater than 10 microns, or both. The fused fibrous compound is preferably manufactured from fibers and a fusion source and is added to the composition in particle form.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a process for the formation of dental restorations from glass-ceramic materials and the resulting dental restorations. A dental restoration is formed by pressing a lithium discilicate glass ceramic where the concentration of lithium discilicate crystals in the glass ceramic composition is at least 30% by weight. Crystal formation is effected with P2O5. The glass ceramic material may further contain coloring oxides, fluoresing agents, pigments, opacifiers and glass modifiers. The resulting dental restorations have superior optical, esthetic and strength properties.

Abstract: The inventive dental composition comprises (a) a part A comprising at least one polyacid and at least one polymerizable component; and (b) a part B comprising water, wherein the composition further comprises an oxidizing agent, a reducing agent, and reactive fillers in at least one of part A or part B and wherein at least one of the polyacid, oxidizing agent, and reducing agent is in a disperse phase. The dental composition can be used in many dental applications and is particularly suited for use as a cement.

Abstract: Temporary dental cements used to temporarily affix a dental prosthesis or appliance to a tooth or other dental substrate includes one or more soothing agent to prevent or reduce tooth sensitivity. The temporary dental cement includes a mixture of an ion leaching agent, polycarboxylic acid, a soothing agent and water. The soothing agent (e.g., 2-ethoxybenzoic acid and 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol) is added in an amount so as to reduce or eliminate tooth sensitivity associated with the reaction between the polycarboxylic and the ion leaching agent (base). The temporary cement composition is sufficiently hydrophilic that it can be readily removed from the tooth when it is desired to permanently restore the tooth.

Abstract: A cement powder is disclosed that contains reactive tricalcium phosphate nanoparticles and other ingredients required to form a cementous material. Methods of making the reactive tricalcium phosphate nanoparticles, the cement powder, the cement paste, and cured cement are also provided, as are methods and articles for using the cement.

Abstract: Powdered material, the binder phase of which mainly consists of a cement-based system, which powdered material has the capacity following saturation with a liquid reacting with the binder phase to hydrate to a radiopaque and chemically bonded ceramic material. According to the invention, said binder phase mainly consists of CaO.Al2O3 (ss) and/or 3CaO.Al2O3 (ss). The material also contains one or more heavy atom types with a density over 5 g/cm3. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing the powdered material and the chemically bonded ceramic material formed from the powdered material, in which said binder phase has a mol ratio Al2O3.3H2O (ss) to 3CaO.Al2O3.6H2O (ss) of a maximum of 2:1.

Abstract: Powdered material, the binder phase of which mainly consists of a cement-based system, which powdered material has the capacity following saturation with a liquid reacting with the binder phase to hydrate to a chemically bonded ceramic material, preferably for dental purposes. According to the invention the powdered material has a composition and/or structure suitable for giving the ceramic material translucence in the hydrated state. The invention also relates to the ceramic material produced by hydration of the powdered material.

Abstract: This invention is directed to lithium disilicate (Li2Si2O5) based glass-ceramics comprising silica, lithium oxide, alumina, potassium oxide and phosphorus pentoxide. The glass-ceramics are useful in the fabrication of single and multi-unit dental restorations (e.g. anterior bridges) made by heat pressing into refractory investment molds produced using lost wax techniques. The glass-ceramics have good pressability, i.e., the ability to be formed into dental articles by heat-pressing using commercially available equipment. In accordance with one embodiment directed to the process of making the glass-ceramics, the compositions herein are melted at about 1200 ° to about 1600 ° C., thereafter cast into steel molds in the shape of cylindrical blanks (pellets), or alternately, cooled to the crystallization temperature. The resulting glass blank are heat-treated to form glass-ceramic blanks via a one or two step heat-treatment cycle preferably in the temperature range of about 400 ° to about 1100 ° C.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for preparing a glass-ceramic containing leucite crystals, comprising the steps of: mixing (1) a glassy material comprising 53 to 65 wt. % of SiO2, 13 to 23 wt. % of Al2O3, 9 to 20 wt. % of K2O and 6 to 12 wt. % of Na2O and (2) synthetic leucite seed crystals comprising 53 to 64 wt. % of SiO2, 19 to 27 wt. % of Al2O3 and 17 to 25 wt. % of K2O, and heat-treating the mixture at 750 to 950° C. for 1 to 5 hours; and a dental porcelain powder and a metal-ceramic restoration both comprising a glass-ceramic prepared by the method. The porcelain comprising the glass-ceramic prepared by the method is substantially free of opacification and decrease in the coefficient of thermal expansion, during fusion-bonding to a metal frame.

Abstract: A bone or dental implant material in the form of a paste includes a mixture of calcium phosphate powders, that are capable of forming hydroxyapatite, with liquid glycerol and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose and Na2HPO4. The paste will harden upon exposure to water with the time to harden controlled by the choice and ratio of constituents.

Abstract: This invention relates to a cement, which comprises in its main phase of microcrystalline magnesium ammonium phosphate and nanoapatite after hardening and thus at the same time has considerable strength. The material is biologically degradable and is suitable for application in tooth cements, as bone replacement, as bone filler, as bone cement or as bone adhesive.

Abstract: Curable compositions comprising degradable macromonomers having one or more terminal acrylate or methacrylate functionality, a curing composition, a filler composition comprising bioactive particles of bioactive glass, bioactive glass-ceramics, calcium phosphates, calcium apatites, or mixtures thereof and optionally one or more polymerizable acrylate or methacrylate comonomers. Degradable macromonomers are manufactured from cyclic monomers with compounds having acrylate or methacrylate functionality. Depending on their use, the degradable macromonomer compositions further comprise one or more organic or inorganic fillers, including a calcium-based compound and/or a radiopacity-imparting agent. The compositions are particularly suitable for root canal sealants, implants, bone cements, and pulp capping materials.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to metal oxide powders with a bimodal particle size distribution, to ceramics that can be made from these metal oxide powders, especially milling ceramics for use in dental technology, to a method for the production of the metal oxide powders and of the ceramics, to the use of nanoscale metal oxide powders for the production of the metal oxide powders and of the ceramics as well as to dental ceramic products.

Abstract: A paste-like polymerizable composition in which two or three pastes are intimately mixed with each other to polymerize, the pastes do not gel and their polymerization curing times being stable, even when the pastes before the polymerization are preserved for a long time, the paste-like polymerizable composition is constructed of a first paste containing (a) a (meth)acrylate having at least one unsaturated double bond, (b) a filler and (c) a pyrimidinetrione derivative; and a second paste containing (a) a (meth)acrylate having at least one unsaturated double bond, (b) a filler, (d) an organic halide and (e) an organometallic compound, or a third paste containing (a) a (meth)acrylate having at least one unsaturated double bond, (b) a filler and (d) an organic halide and a fourth paste containing (a) a (meth)acrylate having at least one unsaturated double bond, (b) a filler and (e) an organometallic compound.

Abstract: The invention relates to uses of glasses and glass-ceramics in dental and orthodontic applications.

Abstract: A tooth surface treatment material and method to eliminate a smear layer, to deliver an inorganic component of a tooth structure in a dental cavity to the tooth structure to make a glass ionomer cement firmly adhere particularly to a dentin which includes an aqueous solution containing 2˜30% by weight of a water-soluble calcium salt and an acid which does not react with the calcium salt by ½ or less of the weight of the calcium salt and having a pH of 2 or less and an aqueous solution containing a water-soluble phosphate other than a calcium salt, or an aqueous solution containing 2˜30% by weight of a water-soluble calcium salt and an aqueous solution containing 2˜30% by weight of a water-soluble phosphate other than a calcium salt and an acid which does not react with the phosphate by ½ or less of the weight of the phosphate and having a pH of 2 or less, the acid-containing aqueous solution being first applied, and the other solution being subsequently applied onto the teeth s

Abstract: Photopolymerizable compositions comprise a cationically polymerizable resin and a photoinitiator system comprising: (i) an iodonium salt; (ii) a visible light sensitizer; and (iii) an electron donor compound having an oxidation potential less than that of 1,4-dimethoxybenzene when measured versus a saturated calomel electrode, wherein the photoinitiator system has a photoinduced potential of less than that of 3-dimethylaminobenzoic acid in a standard solution of 2.9×10−5 moles/g diphenyl iodonium hexafluoroantimonate and 1.5×10−5 moles/g camphorquinone in 2-butanone. The compositions polymerize on exposure to light in the visible spectrum and are useful in a variety of applications, including dental adhesives and dental composites.

Abstract: Opaque porcelains for use with metal cores in the manufacture of PFM restorations. The porcelains exhibit a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) substantially equal to or slightly above the CTE of the metal to which it is applied. The porcelains exhibit a CTE equal to or up to about 1.5×10−6/° C. higher than the dental alloys to which they are applied as the opaque. The porcelains are fabricated from a mixture of two frit compositions. A high expansion, leucite containing frit is combined with a low melting glass frit to provide a porcelain having an expansion in the range of 16.9 to about 18.5×10−6/° C. in the temperature range of 250°-600° C.

Abstract: A coating liquid comprising a polysilazane and a calcium compound is applied to a base material formed from a metal or a ceramic, and the coating liquid is then heated to form a film with apatite forming ability and complete the preparation of a biomaterial. Furthermore, by immersing this biomaterial comprising the film with apatite forming ability in an artificial body fluid, an apatite layer can be formed on top of the film.

Abstract: A pressable dental ceramic comprising a mixture of glass and glass-ceramic frits. A refractory filler is also combined with the frits. The dental ceramic contains an amount of leucite less than about 35 percent by weight. Other additives may be included such as pigments, opacifying agents and fluorescing agents. The dental ceramic comprises a cellular-like microstructure comprised of glassy regions surrounded by clusters of leucite crystals distributed around those glassy regions forming a cellular three-dimensional network.

Abstract: The preferred embodiment of the present invention provides novel and unique fused fibrous compounds for addition to and manufacture of bone and dental cement systems and methods of making the same. The preferred embodiment of the fused fibrous compound material made therefrom comprises a rigid three-dimensional network of fibers fused together at their points of contact wherein said network is greater than 60% by volume void space, has mean pore diameters greater than 10 microns, or both. The fused fibrous compound is preferably manufactured from fibers and a fusion source and is added to the composition in particle form.

Abstract: The invention describes a new calcium phosphate cement powder, whose composition can best be described over the Ca/P molar ratio range of 1.35 to 1.40, most preferably 1.39, and whose two components were prepared by wet chemical synthesis procedures. One component is chemically-synthesized, bi-phasic alpha-TCP (Ca3(PO4)2, 95 wt %)+HA (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2, 5 wt %) powder, while the second component is again a chemically-synthesized, single-phase DCPD (CaHPO4.2H20) powder. A setting solution (Na2HPO4.2H2O) is used to form a self-setting calcium phosphate cement from the powder mixture. This cement can be used as bone filler or bone substitute in applications, which require higher rates of resorption.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to injectable heat generating biocompatible ceramic compositions based on hydraulic calcium aluminate, which can be used for therapeutic treatment in vivo, such as tumour treatment, pain control, vascular treatment, drug activation etc, when curing in situ, and which form a biocompatible solid material that can be left in the body for prolonged periods of time without causing negative health effects. The present invention can also be used to restore the mechanical properties of the skeleton after cancerous diseases.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heat-activated initiator for polymerising and/or cross-linking polyorganosiloxane-type monomers, oligomers and/or polymers with organofunctional groups, comprising a boron derivative of formula (I): (A)xB(R′)y, wherein the symbols R′ are the same or different and represent an alkyl or alkenyl radical in C1-C12, an alkoxy radical in C1-C12, a phenyl radical substituted by at least one electroattractor element, an aryl radical containing at least two aromatic rings such as biphenyl, naphthyl, optionally substituted by at least one electroattractor element, especially a halogen atom (particularly fluorine), or an electroattractor group, especially a CF3, NO2, CN group; and a radical —C2H4—Si(Q)3 with the symbols Q being the same or different and representing an alkyl or alkoxy group in C1 to C10 or a siloxane oligomer with less than 10 silicon atoms. The invention also relates to a corresponding cross-linkable composition and to the uses thereof.

Abstract: Temporary dental cements used to temporarily affix a dental prosthesis or appliance to a tooth or other dental substrate includes one or more soothing agent to prevent or reduce tooth sensitivity. The temporary dental cement includes a mixture of an ion leaching agent, polycarboxylic acid, a soothing agent and water. The soothing agent (e.g., 2-ethoxybenzoic acid and 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol) is added in an amount so as to reduce or eliminate tooth sensitivity associated with the reaction between the polycarboxylic and the ion leaching agent (base). The temporary cement composition is sufficiently hydrophilic that it can be readily removed from the tooth when it is desired to permanently restore the tooth.

Abstract: A filler comprising a substantially amorphous cluster comprising non-heavy metal oxide particles and heavy metal oxide. The filler can be mixed into a hardenable resin to provide radiopaque dental materials having desirable strength and aesthetic character.

Abstract: A spray glaze or opaque composition for coating dental restorations and other surfaces and objects such as hobby ceramics that comprises about 4 to about 50 weight % glaze material, about 5 to about 60 weight % restoration wetting agent, and about 10 to about 90% non CFC propellant. An opaque composition further comprises about 5 to about 30% opaque material.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of ions of weakly basic oxides as linking ions for polyacids in cements, preferably polyelectrolyte cements. Suitable ions comprise elements of the scandium series, for example, Sc3+, Y3+, La3+, Ce4+ and all subsequent tri- and tetra-valent lanthanides and the ions Mg2+, Zn2+, Ga2+, In2+. The application of said ions permits a regulation of the cement reaction without surface treatment of the glass powder.

Abstract: The present invention provides a calcified tissue facing preparation characterized by having a polymerizable resin, and an antimicrobial agent of the formula: where R1 is a hydrocarbon radical having between 1 and 16 carbon atoms, n is an integer between 1 and 8 inclusive and X is a halogen atom selected from fluorine, chlorine or bromine. It is appreciated that R1 includes unsaturated hydrocarbon radicals, as well as heteroatom containing radicals. Preferably, the molecule of Formula (I) is associated with an adduct species. At least one of glutaraldehyde or a chelating agent are added to enhance the preparation characteristics.