Dai-ichi Kogyo Seiyaku Co., Ltd.

Etsuo Ito

Akira Taniuchi

Hironori Kataoka

Kazuhiko Ishihara

Toshiaki Doyama

Masanari Matsumura

A cationic herbicidal composition which contains as an active ingredient a quaternary ammonium salt of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl or alkenyl group of up to 22 carbon atoms; R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 each is an alkyl or alkenyl group of up to 22 carbon atoms, a benzyl group or a hydroxyalkyl group of up to 4 carbon atoms; R.sub.4 is a hydroxyalkyl group of up to 4 carbon atoms; and R.sub.5 is an alkyl group of 1 to 22 carbon atoms, a phenyl group, a C.sub.1-22 alkyl- or hydroxy-substituted phenyl group, or a naphthyl group.

Cationic herbicides

This invention relates to a flame retardant for synthetic fiber substrates and a method of imparting flame resistance to such substrates using the flame retardant. The flame retardant of this invention comprises 75 to 95 weight parts of a hexabromocyclododecane compound having a melting point not less than 195.degree. C. and 25 to 5 weight parts of a hexabromocyclododecane compound having a melting point less than 160.degree. C., which hexabromocyclododecane compounds are available on bromination of trans-trans-cis-cyclododecatriene. This flame retardant imparts excellent flame resistance to synthetic fiber substrates. Moreover, when a synthetic fiber substrate is dyed using a dye bath containing this flame retardant and a dye, the soiling of the substrate and dyeing equipment is kept at the minimum.

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Kyoto, Japan

Etsuo Ito