Copper-containing agent for controlling fungi and bacteria

US5242685A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Karl-Georg Ruppersberger · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Gregor Ley · Wattenheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 27, 1991
• Grant date: Sep 7, 1993
• Expiry date: Sep 27, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08F8/44
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Agents for controlling fungi or bacteria, based on an aqueous solution which contains a polycarboxylic acid, ammonia and more than 10% of copper, and a process for their preparation.