Tenneco Chemicals, Inc.

Hilding R Johnson

Henri Sidi

Biocidal compositions useful in controlling the growth of bacteria and fungi in aqueous surface coatings are aqueous solutions that contain from 20 percent to 80 percent by weight of bicyclic polyoxymethyleneoxazolidines having the structural formula ##STR1## wherein each R represents hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, phenyl, halophenyl, or --(CH.sub.2 O).sub.m CH.sub.2 OH; m represents a number in the range of 0 to 2; and n represents a number in the range of 1 to 4.

Biocidal compositions containing bicyclic polyoxymethyleneoxazolidines

Biocidal compositions useful in controlling the growth of bacteria and fungi in aqueous surface-coating compositions are aqueous solutions that contain from 20 percent to 80 percent by weight of monocyclic polyoxymethyleneoxazolidines having the structural formula ##STR1## wherein R represents hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, phenyl, halophenyl, or --(CH.sub.2 O).sub.m CH.sub.2 OH; each R' represents alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or --CH.sub.2 OH; m represents a number in the range of 0 to 2; and n represents a number in the range of 1 to 4.

Biocidal compositions containing monocyclic polyoxymethyleneoxazolidines

Biocidal compositions useful in controlling the growth of bacteria and fungi in aqueous surface-coating compositions are aqueous solutions that contain from 20 percent to 80 percent by weight of a monocyclic polyoxymethyleneoxazolidine having the structural formula ##EQU1## wherein R represents hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, phenyl, halophenyl, or --(CH.sub.2 O).sub.m CH.sub.2 OH; each R' represents alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or --CH.sub.2 OH; m represents a number in the range of 0 to 2; and n represents a number in the range of 1 to 4. The polyoxymethyleneoxazolidines preferably contain a total of not more than six oxymethylene units (--CH.sub.2 O--) in one or more ring substituents.

Monocyclic polyoxymethyleneoxazolidines and biocidal compositions

Biocidal compositions useful in controlling the growth of bacteria and fungi in aqueous surface coatings are aqueous solutions that contain from 20 percent to 80 percent by weight of a bicyclic polyoxymethyleneoxazolidine having the structural formula ##EQU1## wherein each R represents hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 6 carbon atoms, phenyl, halophenyl, or --(CH.sub.2 O).sub.m CH.sub.2 OH; m represents a number in the range of 0 to 2; and n represents a number in the range of 1 to 4.

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