Abstract: The present invention relates to bleaching formulations comprising transition metal ion-containing bleaching catalysts, which formulations additionally comprise coated particles having meltable cores that comprise an inorganic solid support material and/or a catalase enzyme; and to the coated particles per se. The invention also relates to uses of the bleaching formulations and the coated particles described herein in methods of bleaching.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxidatively curable coating formulation comprising an oxidatively curable alkyd-based resin and a bis-triazacyclononane-based chelant, which chelant may optionally be complexed with a suitable transition metal ion, particularly manganese. The formulations may be paints or other oxidatively curable coating compositions. The invention also provides methods for making such formulations and compositions resultant from the curing of such formulations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a formulation comprising an oxidatively curable alkyd-based resin and a chelating agent. More particularly, the formulation is essentially absent an amount of cations selected from the group consisting of manganese, iron, cobalt, vanadium and copper ions, which ions, if present in the formulation, will form together with the chelant a metal drier capable of accelerating oxidative curing. The invention also provides a method of making the formulation and a method of contacting the formulation with a composition comprising transition metal ions so as to provide a composition comprising an oxidatively curable alkyd-based resin and a complex of the transition metal ion and the chelating agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to bleaching formulations comprising transition metal ion-containing bleaching catalysts, which formulations additionally comprise coated particles having meltable cores that comprise an inorganic solid support material and/or a catalase enzyme; and to the coated particles per se. The invention also relates to uses of the bleaching formulations and the coated particles described herein in methods of bleaching.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of making manganese ion-containing catalyst salts, which comprise a mononuclear or dinuclear Mn (III) and/or Mn (IV) complex based on cyclic triamine ligands and a non-coordinating silicate-based counterion. The invention also concerns compositions comprising such salts and bleaching formulations comprising the salt and a peroxy compound. The salt, and formulations comprising it, are suitable for use in catalysing oxidation, for example as a component of a laundry or dishwasher bleaching composition. The invention further relates to methods of oxidising with the bleaching formulations described herein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an oxidatively curable coating formulation comprising an oxidatively curable alkyd-based resin and a bis-triazacyclononane-based chelant, which chelant may optionally be complexed with a suitable transition metal ion, particularly manganese. The formulations may be paints or other oxidatively curable coating compositions. The invention also provides methods for making such formulations and compositions resultant from the curing of such formulations.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a formulation comprising an oxidatively curable alkyd-based resin and a chelating agent. More particularly, the formulation is essentially absent an amount of cations selected from the group consisting of manganese, iron, cobalt, vanadium and copper ions, which ions, if present in the formulation, will form together with the chelant a metal drier capable of accelerating oxidative curing. The invention also provides a method of making the formulation and a method of contacting the formulation with a composition comprising transition metal ions so as to provide a composition comprising an oxidatively curable alkyd-based resin and a complex of the transition metal ion and the chelating agent.