Compositions comprising a boron compound and an amine oxide

• Main Authors: LEIGH E. WALKER, CHUEN TSENG, CONRAD KEMPINSKA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.11.2006
• Subjects: AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL TREATMENT OF CORK, CANE, REED, STRAW ORSIMILAR MATERIALS; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; PROCESSES, APPARATUS OR SELECTION OF SUBSTANCES FORIMPREGNATING, STAINING, DYEING, BLEACHING OF WOOD OR SIMILARMATERIALS, OR TREATING OF WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIALS WITHPERMEANT LIQUIDS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TRANSPORTING; TRAPPING; WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL

The present invention provides a composition comprising an amine oxide and a boron compound. The boron compound may be boric acid, diboron tetrahydroxide, a borate, a boron oxide, a borane, or any combination of any of the foregoing. Another embodiment of the present invention is a method for preserving and/or waterproofing a wood substrate by contacting the composition with the wood substrate. Yet another embodiment of the present invention is a method for controlling plants, insects, or fungi or regulating the growth of plants comprising applying an insecticidal, herbicidal, fungicidal, or plant growth regulating effective amount of a composition of the present invention to the plants, fungi, insects, the seeds of the plants, or the area on which the plants or fungi grow.