Method of controlling the growth of bacteria, fungi and algae using members of the class of oxazolidines
AssigneeIMC Chemical Group, Inc.
InventorJerry H. Hunsucker
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Abstract
A method of controlling the growth of bacteria, fungi, algae and viruses by applying to them, growth-inhibiting amounts of a monocyclic oxazolidine represented by a disclosed formula.
Claims6
A method of controlling the growth of bacteria, fungi, green and blue green algae and Newcastle's and Boney viruses by applying to these organisms or to the environment inhabited by them growth-inhibiting amounts of 10 .mu.g/ml to 1000 .mu.g/ml of an oxazolidine represented by the formula:
- ##STR8## where R and R.sup.1 are hydrogen or alkyl of 1 or 2 carbon atoms and can be the same or different;
- R.sup.2 is alkyl of from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, and R.sup.3 is hydroxyphenyl.
A method of controlling the growth of bacteria, fungi, green and blue green algae and Newcastle's and Boney viruses by applying to these organisms or to the environment inhabited by them growth-inhibiting amounts of 10 .mu.g/ml to 1000 .mu.g/ml of an oxazolidine represented by the formula ##STR9## where R and R.sup.1 are hydrogen or alkyl of 1 or 2 carbon atoms an can be the same or different;
- R.sup.3 is hydrogen, alkyl of from 1 to 3 carbon atoms or hydroxyphenyl;
- R.sup.6 is hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl and R.sup.7 is methyl, hydroxymethyl, or ethyl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.