Citric acid tri-alkylamide surfactants

摘要

This invention provides water-based compositions which are essentially free of hydrocarbon solvents, particularly coating, ink, fountain solution, adhesive, agricultural and electronics cleaning compositions, manifesting reduced equilibrium and dynamic surface tension by the incorporation of a surface tension reducing amount of certain tri-alkylamides of citric acid of the structurewhere R1, R2 and R3 are independently C1 to C18 alkyl groups.