Abstract: Resins useful in methods of breaking oil-water emulsions. The resins obtained by reacting a compound of formula 1 with an aldehyde and alkoxylating, in any order:
wherein X is —NHR1; —COOH; or —CONHR2; and
is ortho—, meta— or para— to X and is a radical of —O—R3; —C(O)R4; —OC(O)R5; —NR6R7; wherein R1-R7 values are defined herein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 14, 2002
Date of Patent:
November 11, 2003
Assignee:
Clariant GmbH
Inventors:
Frank Holtrup, Elisabeth Wasmund, Wolfram Baumgärtner, Michael Feustel