Aliphatic Acid Volatile Base Salts for Pesticide Solubility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing pesticidal compositions face challenges in maintaining desired physical characteristics, such as pH ranges and solubility, when combined with aliphatic acids and adjuvants, which can affect their efficacy and stability during application.
Innovation Solution
A composition comprising one or more aliphatic acids and a volatile base, which forms a salt that is soluble and emulsifiable with pesticidal compositions and adjuvants, thereby maintaining a target pH range and enhancing bioactivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If aliphatic acids are added to pesticidal compositions to enhance bioactivity, then pesticidal efficacy is improved, but solubility and stability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses volatile bases (ammonium hydroxide, trimethylamine, or triethylamine) as intermediary substances to react with aliphatic acids and form soluble salts. These salts serve as mediators that maintain both the enhanced bioactivity of aliphatic acids and improved solubility/stability in pesticidal compositions. The volatile base component allows the salt to dissolve readily while the aliphatic acid component provides the desired pesticidal enhancement.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the chemical form of aliphatic acids from their native acid state to salt form through neutralization reactions with volatile bases. This parameter change transforms the physical and chemical properties of the aliphatic acids, specifically improving solubility and stability while maintaining or enhancing their bioactivity. The resulting salts have different solubility characteristics compared to the parent acids.
2Ease of operation
If adjuvants are mixed with pesticidal compositions to improve physical characteristics, then application performance is enhanced, but formulation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functional components (aliphatic acids, volatile bases, and adjuvants) into a single integrated composition that provides both pesticidal enhancement and improved application performance. Rather than requiring separate mixing of multiple components, the invention merges these functions into one formulation that can be applied directly, reducing formulation complexity while maintaining enhanced application characteristics.
3Reliability
If multiple ingredients are combined in pesticidal mixtures to achieve synergistic efficacy, then pesticidal effectiveness is improved, but mixing requirements and precision increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-reacting aliphatic acids with volatile bases to form salts before combining with pesticidal compositions and adjuvants. This pre-preparation step ensures proper stoichiometric ratios and chemical compatibility are established in advance, eliminating the need for precise mixing calculations and procedures during field application. The salt formation occurs beforehand under controlled conditions, simplifying subsequent mixing requirements.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution improves the solubility and stability of aliphatic acids in pesticidal compositions, maintains the target pH range, and restores bioactivity post-application, thereby enhancing the efficacy and application characteristics of the pesticidal compositions.
Implementation Method 1
The one or more aliphatic acids and the volatile base are neutralizable to form a salt
Implementation Method 2
the salt is at least one of soluble and emulsifiable with at least one of the pesticidal composition and an adjuvant
Implementation Method 3
causing, by the applying, the volatile base to evaporate, thereby reconstituting the aliphatic acid
Data Source
AI summary
A salt formed by mixing one or more aliphatic acids with a volatile base may be combined with a pesticidal composition (and/or, in some cases, an adjuvant for a pesticidal composition). Adding the volatile base can improve solubility of the one or more aliphatic acids in at least some pesticidal compositions and/or adjuvants, better promote a target pH of the resulting pesticidal composition, and/or promote bioactivity of the one or more aliphatic acids post-application. The composition can be applied together with a pesticide, e.g. by spraying, to control plant pests.