Delivery systems for cyclopropenes requiring less water
AssigneeRohm and Haas Company
InventorEdward Charles Kostansek
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Abstract
The present invention relates to new delivery systems for cyclopropenes in which compositions comprising the cyclopropene and a molecular encapsulation agent complex further comprise additional components which provide slow release of the cyclopropene from the molecular encapsulating agent with water, or release of the cyclopropene from the molecular encapsulating agent with only small amounts of water, or both. The present invention also provides methods to release a cyclopropene from such compositions as well as methods to deliver a cyclopropene compound to a plant to inhibit an ethylene response in the plant.
Claims10
A composition comprising:
- a) a molecular encapsulation agent within which a cyclopropene of the formula:
- wherein R
- is hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl, phenyl, or naphthyl group;
- wherein the substituents are independently halogen, alkoxy, or substituted or unsubstituted phenoxy;
- is encapsulated;
- b) optionally one or more adjuvants;
- and
- c) a water absorbent material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.