Abstract: This invention relates to the control and/or eradication of Eumycotina type fungi is phanerogamia plants with one or more of the substituted carboxylic amides having the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is an organic radical of from 2 to 14 carbon atoms and is selected from the group consisting of hydroxyalkyl, hydroxyalkoxy, haloalkyl radicals and substituted alkylether radicals having the structure --R.sub.1 --O--R.sub.2 --, where R.sub.1 is alkylene of from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 is alkyl of from 1 to 6 carbon atoms substituted with a hydroxy, carboxylate or halocarboxylate group; and wherein R is an acyclic alkyl radical, an alkenyl radical having one or more doubly bonded carbon atoms, a mono- or di- fluorinated benzyl radical or a mono- or di- chlorinated benzyl radical, said R radical containing from 4 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: This invention relates to the control and/or eradication of Eumycotina type fungi in phanerogamia plants with one or more of the substituted carboxylic amides having the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is an organic radical of from 2 to 14 carbon atoms and is selected from the group consisting of hydroxyalkyl, hydroxyalkoxy, haloalkyl radicals and substituted alkylether radicals having the structure --R.sub.1 --O--R.sub.2 --, where R.sub.1 is alkylene of from 1 to 6 carbon atoms and R.sub.2 is alkyl of from 1 to 6 carbon atoms substituted with a hydroxy, carboxylate or halocarboxylate group; and wherein R is an acyclic alkyl radical, an alkenyl radical having one or more doubly bonded carbon atoms, a mono- or di- fluorinated benzyl radical or a mono- or di- chlorinated benzyl radical, said R radical containing from 4 to 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A low molecular weight complex of a lactam and a hydroxy phenolic compound having the formula: ##SPC1##Wherein n is an integer of 3 to 5; W is hydrogen or alkyl having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms including cycloalkyl substituents; each R or R.sub.2 is alkoxy of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, nitro, cyano, carboxylamino, alkylhydroxy having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms or alkyl having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and wherein R.sub.2 can also be alaninyl or a hydroxy benzyl radical having the formula ##SPC2##Where R' is hydroxyl, cyano, alkyl having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, hydrogen or halogen and wherein at least one R or R.sub.2 is hydroxy when R.sub.2 is other than a hydroxy benzyl radical.

Abstract: A complex of a polylactam and a phenolic compound having the formula: ##SPC1##Wherein m is an integer from 2 to 5; z and y are expressed as a ratio of z:y and is 1:1, 1:2, 2:3 or 1:4; W is alkylene having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms and each R and R.sub.2 is hydrogen, halogen, hydroxyl, alkoxy of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, amido, alkyl hydroxy of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, cyano or alkyl having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, and wherein R.sub.2 can also be alaninyl, or ##SPC2##Where each R' is hydrogen, hydroxyl, halo, cyano, alkyl having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms or nitro. The complexes are useful as germicides, insecticides, wood preservatives, plasticizers, and anti-oxidants.

Abstract: A low molecular weight complex of a lactam and a substituted phenolic compound having the formula ##SPC1##Wherein n is an integer of 3 to 5; W is hydrogen or alkyl having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms including cycloalkyl substituents; each R and R', R.sub.2 and R'.sub.2 is alkoxy of from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, nitro, cyano, hydrogen, halogen or alkyl having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms and at least one R, R', R.sub.2 and R'.sub.2 is a substituent other than hydrogen, and wherein R.sub.2 and R'.sub.2 can also be alaninyl.

Abstract: Process of employing as herbicides N-phenylalkyl - .gamma. hydroxybutyramide or methyl or halo derivatives thereof wherein the methyl or halo substituent occupies any one of two of the ortho-, meta- and para-positions of the phenyl ring; said compounds having the following formula: ##SPC1##Wherein m is 1 or 0 and R.sub.1 is hydrogen, methyl, chlorine, or bromine; R.sub.2 is hydrogen, methyl or, when R.sub.1 is other than hydrogen, R.sub.2 can also be chlorine or bromine; and R.sub.3 is hydrogen or, when R.sub.1 is hydrogen, R.sub.3 can also be chlorine or bromine.The above compounds are useful as plant growth regulating agents particularly as a herbicide or control agents for aquatic weeds.