Surfactants secondary alkane sulfonate

Applications Various surfactant types (ABS, AES, secondary alkane sulfonates, and alkylphenol ethoxy-sulfates) have been analysed by means of a QQQ using a thermospray source [89]. Other applications of hyphenated thermospray ionisation mass-spectrometric techniques (LC-TSP-MS) are described elsewhere (Section 73.3.2). 

At the end of the 1990s statistics show that the non-ionic surfactants achieved the highest growth in production rates world-wide, though anionic surfactants (anionics) maintained the dominant position in the surfactant market. Today they are produced in a larger variety by the petrochemical industry than all other types of surfactants. Their production spectrum covers alkyl sulfates (ASs), secondary alkane sulfonates (SASs) and aryl sulfonates and carboxylates via derivatives of partly fluorinated or perfluorinated alkyl surfactants to compounds with an alkylpolyglycolether substructure combined with an anionic moiety such as alkylether sulfates (AESs), phosphates, phosphonates or carboxylates. 

Numerous laboratory sorption studies have been conducted for the most common surfactants non-ionics, such as AE and alkylphenol ethox-ylates (APEOs) anionics such as LAS, secondary alkane sulfonates (SASs) and sodium dodecylsulfates (SDS) and on different natural sorbents [3,8,15-17], Until now, cationic and amphoteric surfactants have received less study than the other types, probably because they represent only 5 and 2%, respectively, of the total surfactant consumption in Western Europe (1998) [18]. 

A limited number of studies have considered the use of surfactant and cosolvent mixtures to enhance the recovery of NAPLs (Martel et al., 1993 Martel and Gelinas, 1996). Martel et al. (1993) and Martel and Gelinas (1996) employed ternary phase diagrams to select surfactant+cosolvent formulatons for treatment of NAPL-contaminated aquifers. The surfactant+cosolvent formulations used in their work, which included lauryl alcohol ethersulfate/n-amyl alcohol, secondary alkane sulfonate/n-butanol, and alkyl benzene sulfonate/n-butanol, were shown to be effective solubilizers of residual trichloroethene (TCE) and PCE in soil columns (Martel et al., 1993). However, very little information is available regarding the effect of cosolvents on the solubilization capacity and phase behavior of ethoxylated nonionic surfactants. 

Schechter, R.S., Wade, W.H., Weerasooriya, U., Weerasooriya, V. and Yiv, S. (1985) Synthesis and performance of isomer-free secondary alkane sulfonate surfactants. J. Dispersion Sci. Techn., 6, 223. 

Only the apphcation of LC-MS analysis can be conceived of as reliable surfactant analysis. To elaborate determination methods for the analysis of the anionic surfactant mixture of alkyl ethoxysuUates (AES) APCI and ESI-MS(-t/-) studies combined with in-source MS/MS examinations were performed and results were compared (cf. Pig. 15.4 and 15.5 and 15.3.3.2 ESI, surfactants). APCI fragment ion spectra revealed the aUcyl chain length and the number of ethoxylate moieties therefore APCI was found to be the method of choice [326]. To confirm determination methods apphed in surfactant analyses an inter-laboratory comparison study of LC-MS techniques and enzyme-hnked immunosorbent assay for the determination of surfactants in wastewaters was performed in seven laboratories. The quantitative determination of the non-ionic NPEOs, AEOs, coconut diethanol amides (CDEAs) and the anionic LAS, NPEO-sulfates and the secondary alkane sulfonates (SAS) was performed under APCI or ESI-interfacing conditions in positive or negative... 

Anionic surfactant Alkylbenzene sulfonate, paraffin sulfonate, olefin sulfonate, secondary alkane sulfonate, alkyl sulfonate, dialkyldiphenylether disulfonate 0-3... 

Hostapur SAS 30 Y [Clariant/Functional Chems.j Chem. Descrip. Secondary alkane sulfonate sodium salt and urea Uses Surfactant for hand dishwashing liqs., all liq. laundry and cleaning agents, esp. highly concentrated prods, and industrial cleaning agents Properties Faintly yish. cl. liq. 30% act. 

Field, J. A., T. M. Field, T. Poiger, H. Siegrist, W. Giger, Fate of secondary alkane sulfonate surfactants during municipal wastewater treatment. Water Res., 1995, 29, 1301-1307. 

The direct reaction of 1-alkenes with strong sulfonating agents leads to surface-active anionic mixtures containing both alkenesulfonates and hydroxyalkane sulfonates as major products, together with small amounts of disulfonate components, unreacted material, and miscellaneous minor products (alkanes, branched or internal alkenes, secondary alcohols, sulfonate esters, and sultones). Collectively this final process mixture is called a-olefinsulfonate (AOS). The relative proportions of these components are known to be an important determinant of the physical and chemical properties of the surfactant [2]. 

The amount of residual sulfonate ester remaining after hydrolysis can be determined by a procedure proposed by Martinsson and Nilsson [129], similar to that used to determine total residual saponifiables in neutral oils. Neutrals, including alkanes, alkenes, secondary alcohols, and sultones, as well as the sulfonate esters in the AOS, are isolated by extraction from an aqueous alcoholic solution with petroleum ether. The sulfonate esters are separated from the sultones by chromatography on a silica gel column. Each eluent fraction is subjected to saponification and measured as active matter by MBAS determination measuring the extinction of the trichloromethane solution at 642 nra. (a) Sultones. Connor et al. [130] first reported, in 1975, a very small amount of skin sensitizer, l-unsaturated-l,3-sultone, and 2-chloroalkane-l,3-sultone in the anionic surfactant produced by the sulfation of ethoxylated fatty alcohol. These compounds can also be found in some AOS products consequently, methods of detection are essential. 

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