| abstract |
The invention provides a novel composition for bleaching cellulose based materials, such as wood pulp and paper which includes using an effective amount of a source of an oxidant and an oxidatively stable bleach activator having structure (I) wherein Y, Y3 and Y^ each reoresents .a bridging group having zero, one, two or three carbon containing nodes for substitution, and Y2 is a bridging group having at least one carbon containing node for substitution. Each node contains a C(R), C(R,)(Rz.), or a. C(R)2 unit. Each R may be H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, cylcoalkenyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkynyl, alkylaryl, halogen, alkoxy, or phenoxy, CHrCF3 , CF3 and combinations thereof, or form a substituted or unsubstituent benzene ring, or together with a paired R substituent bound to the same carbon atom form a cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl ring; M is a transition metal; Q is any counterion; and L is any labile ligand. |