Repellent aminoalkyldithiocarbamic acids

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A method of repelling rodents or ruminants comprising applying to a rodent or ruminant habitat a repellent amount of a compound of the formula ##EQU4## in which Alk is an alkylene radical of 2 to 6 carbon atoms.
2.
The method according to claim 1 in which the compound is an .
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-aminoalkyl-dithiocarbamic acid.
3.
The method of claim 1 in which said compound is 2-aminoethyl-dithiocarbamic acid.
4.
The method of claim 1 in which said compound is 4-aminobutyl-dithiocarbamic acid.
5.
The method of claim 1 in which said compound is 6-aminohexyl-dithiocarbamic acid.




Description:
The present invention relates to and has for its objects the provision of particular new active compositions in the form of mixtures with solid and liquid dispersible carrier vehicles of certain aminoalkyldithiocarbamic acids, some of which are new, and which possess valuable strong fungicidal and animal-repellent properties, and methods for using such compounds in a new way, especially for combating and controlling fungi and animals with other and further objects becoming apparent from a study of the within specification and accompanying examples.
The present invention relates to the use, as fungicides or rodent or ruminant repellents, of certain aminoalkyldithiocarbamic acids, some of which are known.
Some dithiocarbamates in the form of their salts and disulfides have already been known for a long time as fungicides.
Heavy metal salts, for example the zinc salts and manganese salts of alkylene-bis-dithiocarbamic acids, have gained especial importance.
The salts, for example the zinc salts, of .
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-amino-alkyl-dithiocarbamic acids have also already been described as fungicides (see, for example, German Auslegeschriften (German Published Specifications) 1,023,921 and 1,094,729).
However, because of their inadequate spectrum of activity, these previously known active compounds can only be used to a limited extent for combating diseases of cereals.
Within the framework of the development of new seed dressings against diseases of cereals, which are intended to replace the toxicologically unsafe agents containing mercury, the previously known active compounds based on dithiocarbamate cannot be employed universally, largely because of their lack of activity, or inadequate activity, against species of Helminthosporium