Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst for producing alcohols from carboxylic acids by hydrogenation, containing Co metal as an essential component and one or more elements selected from Zr, Y, La, Ce, Si, Al, Sc, V and Mo as a first co-catalyst component, and having 20% or more of cubic phase in the crystal phase of the Co metal, the method for producing the catalyst, and the method for producing an alcohol from a carboxylic acid as a raw material by hydrogenation using the catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention aims to provide a bis(phosphine) boronium salt to be used as a building block or the like for producing a diphosphine compound effective mainly for various kinds of transition metal-catalyzed reactions and further to provide a preferable production method of the bis(phosphine) boronium salt and a bis(phosphine) boronium salt to be produced by the production method. The present invention provides a bis(phosphine) boronium salt having the structure defined by the following formula (1).

Abstract: The invention provides a bleaching catalyst and a bleaching composition having a sufficient bleaching effect even at low temperatures and being excellent in an effect of preventing color migration in fibers with less bleach of dyes and less damage to fibers. The invention provides a cyclic amide transition metal complex (1), a bleaching catalyst containing the same, and a bleaching composition containing the bleaching catalyst and a peroxy bleaching agent selected from hydrogen peroxide and a peroxide or an organic peracid generating hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous solution. wherein R1 to R6 represent H, a C1-16 hydrocarbon or perfluoroalkyl group or a halogen atom, R7 represents a C1-18 alkylene or perfluoroalkylene group, A represents a group having 1 to 3 quaternary ammonium groups substituted with an alkyl group or linked with an alkylene group, or a heterocyclic aromatic quaternary cation group, or the like, M represents a transition metal, L represents a ligand, and Q represents a counterion.

Abstract: The invention provides a bleaching catalyst and a bleaching composition having a sufficient bleaching effect even at low temperatures and being excellent in an effect of preventing color migration in fibers with less bleach of dyes and less damage to fibers. The invention provides a cyclic amide transition metal complex (1), a bleaching catalyst containing the same, and a bleaching composition containing the bleaching catalyst and a peroxy bleaching agent selected from hydrogen peroxide and a peroxide or an organic peracid generating hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous solution. wherein R1 to R6 represent H, a C1-16 hydrocarbon or perfluoroalkyl group or a halogen atom, R7 represents a C1-18 alkylene or perfluoroalkylene group, A represents a group having 1 to 3 quaternary ammonium groups substituted with an alkyl group or linked with an alkylene group, or a heterocyclic aromatic quaternary cation group, or the like, M represents a transition metal, L represents a ligand, and Q represents a counterion.

Abstract: A bleaching detergent formulation comprising the components of: (A) particles comprising 0.

Abstract: A bleaching formulation comprising (a) a peroxy bleaching agent selected from hydrogen peroxide and a peroxide or an organic peracid capable of generating hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous solution, (b) an anionic bleaching catalyst containing a metal, and (c) a cationic compound, and a bleaching method comprising using the bleaching formulation wherein pretreatment with component (c) precedes treatment with components (a) and (b), or components (a), (b), and (c) are used simultaneously.

Abstract: A bleaching detergent formulation comprising the components of: (A) particles comprising 0.

Abstract: A bleaching formulation comprising (a) a peroxy bleaching agent selected from hydrogen peroxide and a peroxide or an organic peracid capable of generating hydrogen peroxide in an aqueous solution, (b) an anionic bleaching catalyst containing a metal, and (c) a cationic compound, and a bleaching method comprising using the bleaching formulation wherein pretreatment with component (c) precedes treatment with components (a) and (b), or components (a), (b), and (c) are used simultaneously.

Abstract: In preparing an acyloxybenzenesulfonic acid or salts thereof by sulfonating the corresponding acyloxybenzene (1), the preparation process of the acyloxybenzenesulfonic acid wherein as an additive is added at least one selected from among carboxylic acids or esters thereof (2), alkyl phosphates (3), polyphosphoric acids (4), amides and like compounds (6), carbonic esters (7), and hydroxy compounds (8). By the process, acyloxybenzenesulfonic acid excellent in hue can be prepared on an industrial scale in an enhanced yield at enhanced selectivity and lowered cost as compared with the processes of the prior art.