PROCESS FOR BLEACHING TEXTILES AND FOR COMBATING MICROORGANISMS

• Main Authors: POLONY, RUDOLF, REINERT, GERHARD, HOLZLE, GERD
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; German
• Published: 11.07.1984
• Subjects: ADHESIVES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; BLEACHING LEATHER OR FURS; CANDLES; CHEMISTRY; DETERGENT COMPOSITIONS; DETERGENTS; DRY-CLEANING, WASHING OR BLEACHING FIBRES, FILAMENTS, THREADS,YARNS, FABRICS, FEATHERS OR MADE-UP FIBROUS GOODS; DYES; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; FISHING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; FORESTRY; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; LAKES; LAUNDERING; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; MORDANTS; NATURAL RESINS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC DYES OR CLOSELY-RELATED COMPOUNDS FOR PRODUCING DYES; PAINTS; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; POLISHES; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; RECOVERY OF GLYCEROL; RESIN SOAPS; SOAP OR SOAP-MAKING; TEXTILES; TRAPPING; TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; TREATMENT OF WATER, WASTE WATER, SEWAGE, OR SLUDGE; TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS,FABRICS, FEATHERS, OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS; USE OF SINGLE SUBSTANCES AS DETERGENTS

A process is proposed for bleaching textiles or removing stains from textiles and for combating micro-organisms in or on organic or inorganic substrates, or for protecting the latter against attack by micro-organisms, by treating the textiles or the substrates to be freed of or protected from micro-organisms with a water-soluble zinc phthalocyanine or aluminium phthalocyanine, in the presence of water and under irradiation with light, in which process a sulfonated zinc phthalocyanine or aluminium phthalocyanine which is further substituted by neutral groups which do not confer solubility in water, for example by halogen atoms or pseudo-halogens, or a mixture of these phthalocyanine compounds, is used as the water-soluble zinc phthalocyanine or aluminium phthalocyanine. Bleaching, washing and soaking agents or agents having an antimicrobial action, for carrying out the process, are also proposed, which, in addition to the active ingredient, contain, if appropriate, inorganic salts, water and also, in the case of washing agents, customary washing-agent constituents. Novel sulfonated zinc phthalocyanine and aluminium phthalocyanine compounds and their preparation are furthermore described.