Przemysl Chemiczny, Vol.89, No.10, 1264-1267, 2010
Ecological safety of market products containing cationic surface-active compounds
Six surface-active tetraalkylammonium chlorides were prepd. by mixing under lab. conditions and tested for biodegradability and ecotoxicity according to OECD regulations. The agents were biodegradable but showed high toxicy against daphnia. The predicted concns. of the agents were higher than the resp. non-effect concns. except for the agent contg. C(16)H(33) substituent in the mol.