Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R is alkyl having up to 4 carbon atoms, n has an average value of at least 9, X is a radical of the formula --C(.dbd.O)--(NH--SO.sub.2).sub.m -- in which m is 0 or 1 and, if m is 1, the carbonyl group may be bonded to the oxygen atom or to the nitrogen atom, and each of the radicals A.sub.1, A.sub.2 and A.sub.3, independently of the others, is hydrogen or an acyl radical, and salts of salt-forming compounds of formula I, as well as metal complexes of compounds of formula I, in which A.sub.1, A.sub.2 and A.sub.3, are hydrogen can be used as metal chelators and as auxiliaries in diagnosis.

Abstract: The water dispersible granule of the present invention contains (a) a pesticidal active ingredient which is solid at room temperature, (b) an anionic surface active agent, and (c) a kaolin series clay having a volume median diameter of 2 .mu.m or more, and it exhibits a good disintegrability-in-water and a high dispersion stability.

Abstract: Alkylthioalkylamine carbamic acid derivatives are prepared which correspond to the formula: ##STR1## wherein R and R.sub.1 are both independently alkyl groups containing from 6 to 16 carbon atoms, and m and n are both independently integers of from 2 to 3. Compositions containing these compounds inhibit the growth of organisms such as bacteria, yeast, fungi, mold, algae, mollusks, hydroids, or tunicates on surfaces.

Abstract: Ethyl 2-[4-(3-chlorophenoxy)phenoxy]ethylcarbamate is suitable controlling phytophagous cicadas in rice crops and fruit pests such as leaf rollers, citrus fruit pests such as scale insects, and vegetable and cotton pests such as white flies and noctuids.

Abstract: The invention relates to glycerol derivatives of general formulae Ia, Ib and Ic ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, A and Y stand for various substituents, to a preparation process of said compounds and to therapeutical compositions containing the same.

Abstract: A synergistic antimicrobial composition comprising 4,5-dichloro-2-n-octyl-3-isothiazolone or 2-methyl-3-isothiazolone and ferric dimethyldithiocarbamate, in a ratio to each other which exhibits synergism is disclosed.

Abstract: A method is provided for stabilizing alkylenebisdithiocarbamates, such as 1,2-ethylenebisdithiocarbamates (EBDC), by mixing the EBDC in the presence of water with a hydroxymethane sulfinate (HMS) which degrades to formaldehyde to reduce the content of ethylenethiourea (ETU) in the EBDC. The HMS and sulfate by-product from the formaldehyde formation also act as reducing agents to inhibit further ETU formation by oxidative decomposition of EBDC. The hydroxymethane sulfinate is preferably added in an amount of about 0.1 to 5 weight percent based upon the EBDC, and the aqueous reaction mixture is then preferably dried under vacuum. Co-polymerization agents, such as hydroquinone or melamine, may also be added to further reduce and inhibit ETU content and formation.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for the containment and controlled release of and the substantial reduction of the leaching from the site of application of agricultural chemicals. In the disclosed method, the agricultural chemicals are applied to the soil dispersed in an aqueous gel-forming composition. Novel compositions of the agricultural chemicals dispersed in aqueous gel-forming compositions are also disclosed.

Abstract: Crop yields are significantly enhanced by treating soil or other plant growing media with a fungicidally or pesticidally effective amount of metham, the fungicidally or pesticidally effective amount being insufficient to significantly retard growth of a plant. In the practice of the invention, the soil or growing media surrounding roots of growing plants is treated with metham by dripping an aqueous solution of metham onto the media, by injecting the aqueous solution into the soil, by irrigating the soil or by drenching or spraying the soil with the aqueous solution. Significantly reduced amounts of metham are employed to reduce damage to the plant or vegetative material.

Abstract: A biocide composition comprises an effective amount of a biocide and an effective amount of a biocide activator selected from the group consisting of an alkyl phosphate, an alkenyl phosphate, a hydroxyalkyl phosphate, a polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether phosphate, a salt thereof, a polyoxyalkylene alkenyl ether phosphate, a salt thereof, a polyoxyalkylene hydroxyalkyl ether phosphate and a salt thereof.

Abstract: Various types of biological treatments, including antineoplastic treatments with antineoplastic drugs, can result in damage to the blood-forming function of the bone marrow. This damage can be reversed, at least to some degree, with an effective amount (preferably an extremely low dose) of a pharmaceutically acceptable dithiocarbamic compound, including a compound of the formula R.sub.1 R.sub.2 NCSSM or R.sub.1 R.sub.2 NCSS-SCSNR.sup.3 R.sup.4, wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are the same or different aliphatic or cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic groups, unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxyl, or one of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 and one of R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 can be H, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 or R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: Methods useful for inhibiting the release of interleukin-1 and for alleviating interleukin-1 mediated conditions, such as IL-1-mediated inflammation, comprising administration of an effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable antioxidant compound such as disulfiram, tetrakis [3-(2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionyloxy methyl]methane or 2,4-di-isobutyl-6-(N,N-dimethylaminomethyl)-phenol.

Abstract: Methods of using comminuted Alder bark as a stimulator of seed germination and growth media comprising comminuted Alder bark are disclosed. Also disclosed are seed treatment dusts comprising an active ingredient, a diluent material and comminuted Alder bark and methods of using these dusts. The active ingredients include fungicides, insecticides and other pesticides. The diluent materials used include clays and talcs.

Abstract: A crude drug ingredient having bactericidal activity incorporated into a curable composition comprising a (meth)acrylate type monomer, a polymerization initiator and if necessary a filler to formulate the ingredient into the drug having sustained release property. The curable composition containing the crude drug ingredient is applied to a defective part of a tooth or an artificial gum for preventing dental diseases such as carious tooth, pyorrhea alveolaris, and the like.

Abstract: Non-dusty water-dispersible mancozeb granules (90%>100 micron diameter) are produced by a new process characterized by spray drying an aqueous slurry of .gtoreq.60% solids consisting of maneb or maneb dihydrate (5 microns, 50% 2-5 microns), a water soluble zinc salt and other formulation adjuvants.

Abstract: Crop yields in a plant bed are significantly enhanced by treating soil in the plant bed with a fungicidally effective amount of metham, the fungicidally effective amount being insufficient to retard growth of a plant. In the practice of the invention, the plant soil is treated with metham by dripping an aqueous solution of metham into a seed furrow, by injecting the aqueous solution into the soil or by drenching the soil with the aqueous solution, either at about the time of planting of the seed or vegetative material or by treatment of the soil surrounding established plant crops. Significantly reduced amounts of metham are employed to reduce damage to the planted seed or vegetative material.

Abstract: Foam compositions containing a herbicide or pesticide which are readily absorbed systemically by plant life are made by incorporating a gas such as air into a composition made up of an alcohol, a modified coconut acid or a blend of nonionic and anionic surfactants, water and a systemic herbicide or pesticide. These foam compositions are applied directly to plant life such as trees and are absorbed within three minutes, often within one minute.

Abstract: Various types of biological treatments, including antineoplastic treatments with antineoplastic drugs, can result in damage to the blood-forming function of the bone marrow. This damage can be reversed, at least to some degree, with an effective amount (preferably an extremely low dose) of a pharmaceutically acceptable dithiocarbamic compound, including a compound of the formula R.sub.1 R.sub.2 NCSSM or R.sub.1 R.sub.2 NCSS--SCSNR.sup.3 R.sup.4, wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are the same or different aliphatic or cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic groups, unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxyl, or one of R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 and one of R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 can be H, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 or R.sup.3 and R.sup.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for the containment and controlled release of and the substantial reduction of the leaching from the site of application of agricultural chemicals. In the disclosed method, the agricultural chemicals are applied to the soil dispersed in an aqueous gel-forming composition. Novel compositions of the agricultural chemicals dispersed in aqueous gel-forming compositions are also disclosed.

Abstract: A physical property-improving reagent which comprises an alkenoylcarbamate compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, X is an oxygen atom (--O--), a sulfur atom (--S--) or a substituted or unsubstituted imino group (--NR'--), R' being a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, and Y is the residue of an active hydrogen atom-containing compound excluding --X-H therefrom dissolved in an organic solvent having a solubility parameter of not less than 8, which can impact excellent physical properties to a polymer produced with the same.

Abstract: Novel N-phenyl-N-carboxythioureas of the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.7 cycloalkyl or C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 cycloalkenyl,R.sub.3 represents hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkoxy or C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkylthio,R.sub.4 represents C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 alkenyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 alkynyl or phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkyl; C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 alkenyl, C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 alkynyl or phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkyl each mono- or poly-substituted by halogen or interrupted one or several times by oxygen and/or sulphur; C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl; or C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 cycloalkyl mono- or poly-substituted by halogen or by C.sub.1 -C.sub.5 alkyl, andR.sub.5 represents C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl; phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkyl; C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl or phenyl-C.sub.1 -C.sub.7 alkyl each mono- or poly-substituted by halogen or interrupted one or several times by oxygen and/or sulphur; C.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is the choline diethyl-dithiocarbamate having the following structural formula: ##STR1## as well as a process for its preparation from choline chloride and sodium diethyl-dithio-carbamate trihydrate.This substance is useful in the treatment of degenerative brain diseases.

Abstract: The invention relates to plant protection compositions based on a two-component system of plant fungicides, one of which is 1-[2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)pentyl]-1H-1,2,4-triazole and the other is Mancozeb, which is an [ethylenebis(dithiocarbamato)]manganese complex with [ethylene-bis(dithiocarbamato)]zinc of the formula II ##STR1## In the range from 1:3 to 1:100 the disclosed mixtures display enhanced fungicidal activities.

Abstract: Methods useful for inhibiting the release of interleukin-1 and for alleviating interleukin-1 mediated conditions, such as IL-1-mediated inflammation, comprising administration of an effective amount of a pharmaceutically acceptable antioxidant compound such as disulfiram, tetrakis [3-(2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-hydroxyphenyl)propionyloxy methyl]methane or 2,4-di-isobutyl-6-(N,N-dimethylaminomethyl)-phenol.

Abstract: This disclosure describes certain substituted piperazine-1,4-naphthalenediones useful as anti-asthmatic agents.

Abstract: A method and a composition for attracting bark beetles, particularly southern pine beetles, and suppressing their further development to halt destructive forest infestations.

Abstract: Zineb is stabilized by mixing it with calcium oxide in the absence of sulfur.

Abstract: 4-Acylresorcinol esthers of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is lower alkyl, R.sub.2 is fluorinated lower alkyl, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, lower alkoxy, trifluoromethyl or halogen, alk is an alkylene or hydroxyalkylene radical which is uninterrupted or interrupted by oxygen, one of the radicals R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.7 is a group of the formula --NH--C(.dbd.O)--R.sub.8, a radical R.sub.4 or R.sub.5 which differs from this is a radical R.sub.9 and a radical R.sub.7 which differs from this is a radical R.sub.10, R.sub.6 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, trifluoromethyl, halogen, carboxyl which is free, esterified or amidated, cyano or lower alkanoyl, R.sub.8 is carboxyl which is free, esterified or amidated or 5-tetrazolyl, R.sub.9 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen or trifluoromethyl and R.sub.10 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, halogen, trifluoromethyl, cyano or carboxyl which is free, esterified or amidated, and their salts have antiallergic and antiinflammatory properties.

Abstract: A concentrated aqueous solution of the sodium salt of methionine, which is practically free from inorganic salts, is produced from the medium resulting from the hydrolysis of 5-(.beta.-mercaptoethyl)hydantoin.

Abstract: Novel lipid derivatives of the formula ##STR1## [wherein R.sup.1 is alkyl or alkylcarbamoyl; R.sup.2 is hydrogen, hydroxy which may be substituted, amino which may be substituted or cyclic amino; R.sup.3 is a chemical binding or alkylene which may be substituted; R.sup.4 is hydrogen, alkyl or aralkyl; X and Y are independently O, S or an imino group which may be substituted, and when Y is an imino group, Y, together with the imino group represented by X or R.sup.4, may form a ring; and Z is imino or a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring which may be substituted] and salts thereof have inhibiting activity on platelet activating factor and are useful as a preventive or therapeutic agent for a variety of circulatory diseases and allergic disorders and also as an antineoplastic agent.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a derivative of dihydroxybenzamide represented by the formula(I): ##STR1## wherein (1) R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group and R.sup.2 represents a straight chain-alkyl group of 4 to 12 carbon atoms, a branched chain-alkyl group of 4 to 12 carbon atoms, a cyclo-alkyl group of 4 to 12 carbon atoms, ##STR2## wherein n is an integer of 1 to 6, or a pyridyl group which is substituted or unsubstituted, or (2) R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are cyclized to make a heterocycle containing amino group represented by the formula ##STR3## wherein X represents a nitrogen atom or a methine and Y represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group of 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same.

Abstract: A method for alleviating cisplatin compound-induced nephrotoxicity in animals comprising administering to the animal an effective amount of a polar dithiocarbamate compound. The polar dithiocarbamate compounds have the formula: ##STR1## In the above formula, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are hydrocarbon groups and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, or both R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 contain a polar group substituted thereon. M is a pharmaceutically acceptable cation and n is an integer of from 1 to 3.Novel polar dithiocarbamate compounds are disclosed as well.

Abstract: Use of an N-phenylcarbamate of the formula: ##STR1## as a fungicidal agent against phytopathogenic fungi, particularly their strains resistant to benzimidazole thiophanate fungicides and/or cyclic imide fungicides.

Abstract: Dithiocarbamic compounds, administered about 0.5 to about 6 hours after Pt compounds, have been found to counter the toxicity of the platinum in multicellular organisms (e.g. mammals). For example, neoplastic growths in mammals can be treated with cis-diamine or cis-diammine Pt(II) complexes with greatly lessened risk of nephrotoxicity, bone marrow toxicity, or damage to the digestive system of the mammal, provided the dithiocarbamic compound is timely (and preferably parenterally) administered. Particularly effective dithiocarbamic compounds are monomeric (e.g. ##STR1## where M is a pharmaceutically acceptable cation and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are lower aliphatic (or cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic groups) or, less preferably, dimeric, e.g. ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are as defined previously, and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are defined in the same manner as R.sup.1 and R.sup.2.

Abstract: Dithiocarbamic compounds, administered about 0.5 to about 6 hours after Pt compounds, have been found to counter the toxicity of the platinum in multi-cellular organisms (e.g. mammals). For example, neoplastic growths in mammals can be treated with cis-diamine or cis-diamine Pt(II) complexes with greatly lessened risk of nephrotoxicity, bone marrow toxicity, or damage to the digestive system of the mammal, provided the dithiocarbamic compound is timely (and preferably parenterally) administered. Particularly effective dithiocarbamic compounds are monomeric (e.g. ##STR1## where M is a pharmaceutically acceptable cation and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are lower aliphatic (or cycloaliphatic or heterocycloaliphatic groups) or, less preferably, dimeric, e.g. ##STR2## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are as defined previously, and R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are defined in the same manner as R.sup.1 and R.sup.2.

Abstract: A biocidal composition containing, as active ingredients, at least one imidazole compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 represents a phenyl group, a halogen-substituted phenyl group, an alkyl group, or a halogen-substituted alkyl group; and R.sup.2 represents a halogen atom, and at least one other specific compound. The combination of the compound represented by formula (I) and other specific compound can produce an unexpected effect in amount required and biocidal spectrum.