Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Rutgerswerke Aktiengesellschaft

Franz Konig

Hans-Ullrich Huth

Wilfried Sahm

Helmut Braun

Helmut Berenbold

Detlef Wehle

Gerhart Schneider

Eberhard Giebeler

Peter Hess

Helmut Hartner

Hans Walter Bucking

Use of fine-particled biocidal aqueous cationic dispersions of polymers as biocidal treatment agents for substrates at risk from microbes, preferably for fungicidal, bactericidal and/or algicidal treatments. The dispersions of polymers used are biocidal cationic dispersions of polymers which can be obtained from suitable monomers by emulsion polymerization and which contain biocidal cationically surfactant quaternary organic ammonium compounds, preferably tetra-substituted ammonium compounds of the formula (I) and/or alkyl- or alkenylpyridinium compounds of the formula (II), in particular in an amount of 0.1 to 20% by weight, based on the disperse polymer. The average particle diameter of the polymer particles in the biocidal cationic dispersions of polymers is preferably 0.02 to 0.5 .mu.m at a cationic activity of 1.5 to 600 .mu.mol per g of solid, measured at pH 7, and the solids content of the dispersions is preferably 3 to 40% by weight. The biocidal cationic dispersions are preferably used as treatment agents for the preservation of wood, for emulsion paint films and for polymer plasters or synthetic resin plasters, it being possible for the biocidal treatments which can be achieved to display surprising long-term biological actions.

Aqueous biocidal cationic dispersions of polymers and their use as

A biocidal preservative for cellulose-containing products containing a biocidally effective amount of a polymeric quaternary ammonium borate obtained by simultaneous reaction of (A) at least one member of the group consisting of boric acid and salts and esters thereof and (B) an amine of the formula ##STR1## and (C) ethylene oxide or propylene oxide wherein R.sub.1 is alkyl or alkenyl of 8 to 22 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 is hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 22 carbon atoms or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 NH.sub.2 or R.sub.1 is alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 is --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x --H or --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x --H, R.sub.3 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x --H, (CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x --H and --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 NH.sub.2, R.sub.4 and R.sub.6 are individually selected from the group consisting of alkyl of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x --H and --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x --H, and R.sub.5 and R.sub.7 are individually --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x --H and --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O).sub.x --H, A is selected from the group consisting of --(CH.sub.2).sub.n, --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --O--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2).sub.n -- and --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --NH--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2).sub.n --x is an integer from 1 to 55 and n is an integer of 1 to 20, the molar ratio of A:B:C being 1:2 to 20:0.6 to 1.5.

Preservatives for cellulose containing products

Peracylated aliphatic polyamines are useful as activators for inorganic peroxo compounds, i.e., they set free the available oxygen of the peroxo compounds in aqueous solutions at temperatures below 80.degree.C and are thus useful as additives to detergents especially inasmuch as they are compatible with usual detergent brighteners.

Peracylated polyamines compatible with optical brighteners as activators

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