Lithium soaps, their use as thickeners in lubricant oils or lubricant greases, and lubricant greases containing them

摘要

Lithium soaps of non-terminal vicinal substituted fatty acids having from 16 to 22 carbon atoms wherein said vicinal substitution is a hydroxy group and a group selected from the group consisting of alkoxy having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, alkenoxy having from 3 to 18 carbon atoms, and mixtures thereof, alkanoyloxy having from 1 to 18 carbon atoms, alkenoyloxy having from 3 to 18 carbon atoms, and mixtures thereof, said fatty acid being substituted with from 0 to 2 other hydroxyls; as well as lubricating greases containing said lithium soaps.