US 5,495,033 A · Methylated herbicidal adjuvant

Abstract

The present invention includes a process for methylating free fatty acids in an acidulated soybean soapstock without altering a neutral oil component in the soybean soapstock. The present invention also includes a methylated acidulated soybean soapstock as well a herbicidal mixture that includes the methylated acidulated soybean soapstock.

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Dependent claims

A methylated adjuvant comprising acidulated soybean soapstock having free fatty acids and neutral oil wherein at least about 95% of free fatty acids in the soapstock are methylated while neutral oils are unreacted.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

08/297,636Filed 29 Aug 1994

Granted

27 Feb 1996

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

A01N 37/06
Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing organic compounds containing a carbon atom having three bonds to…:…
C07C 53/126
Saturated compounds having only one carboxyl group bound to an acyclic carbon atom or hydrogen: acids containing more than four carbon atoms
C07C 57/03
With only carbon-to-carbon double bonds as unsaturation: monocarboxylic acids
C07C 67/08
Preparation of carboxylic acid esters: by reacting carboxylic acids or symmetrical anhydrides with the hydroxy or O-metal group of organic compounds

Methylated herbicidal adjuvant

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Methylated herbicidal adjuvant

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