| abstract |
Biologically active compounds, for example, drugs and agrochemicals that contain one or more functional groups selected from the group consisting of: alcohol, ether, phenyl, amino, amido, thiol, carboxylic acid and carboxylic acid ester, wherein one or more of these functional groups are replaced a lipophilic group selected from the group consisting of: RCOO-, RCONH-, RCOS-, RCH.sub.2.nO-, RCH.sub.2NH-, -CONHCH.sub.2.nR, where R is a lipophilic moiety selected from the group consisting of cis-8-heptadecenyl, trans-8-heptadecenyl, cis-10-nonadecenyl and trans-10-nonadecenyl. |