Akzo Nobel N.v.

Akzo Nobel Chemicals International B.v.

Leif Olof Karlson

Peter Westbye

Peter Boström

A composition is provided, comprising a non-ionic, water-soluble, hydrophobically modified lower alkyl hydroxyalkyl linear polysaccharide ether, wherein the hydrophobic group comprises a long-chain C10-C18 alkyl or alkenyl group, the lower alkyl group has 1-4 carbon atoms, and the hydroxyalkyl groups are hydroxyethyl and/or hydroxypropyl; and one or more agriculturally active ingredient. A method for treating a plant is also provided, comprising the step of contacting a plant with a composition of the invention.

Hydrophobically modified polysaccharide ethers as deposition enhancers for agricultural active ingredients

The present invention relates to a water-soluble associative cellulose ether having a DP viscosity from 250 to 20,000 mPa&#xb7;s, measured at a concentration of 1% by weight, and a molecular substitution, MS, from 0.0001 to 0.005 of a hydrophobic substituent containing an unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon group of 8-24 carbon atoms. The cellulose ether has a good thickening effect and advantageous application properties at low contents and can be used in an aqueous decorative paint composition, an aqueous paper coating composition, an aqueous organic filler composition, an aqueous cement slurry, an aqueous detergent composition or an aqueous personal care formulation.

Associative water-soluble cellulose ethers

Nonionic cellulose ether with improved thickening properties

The present invention relates to associative cellulose ethers with improved thickening effects, especially in paint. The improvement depends on the presence of a hydrophobic modifying group of the general formula

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Stenungsund, Sweden

Leif Olof Karlson