Patents Represented by Attorney Baker Donelson Bearnan, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
  • Patent number: 8039014
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds of the formula (I) in which W, X, Y, Z, A, B, D, Q1, Q2 and G are as defined above, to a plurality of processes for their preparation and to their use as pesticides and/or herbicides and/or fungicides and also to selective herbicidal compositions comprising, firstly, the 3?-alkoxyspirocyclopentyl-substituted tetramic and tetronic acids of the formula (I) and, secondly, at least one crop plant compatibility-improving compound, and also to boosting the activity of crop protection compositions comprising active compounds from the class of the 3?-alkoxyspirocyclopentyl-substituted tetramic and tetronic acids of the formula (I) by adding ammonium salts and/or phosphonium salts or by adding ammonium salts and/or phosphonium salts and penetrants, to the corresponding compositions, to processes for their preparation and to their use in crop protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Reiner Fischer, Stefan Lehr, Dieter Feucht, Eva-Maria Franken, Olga Malsam, Guido Bojack, Christian Arnold, Martin Jeffrey Hills, Heinz Kehne, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Jan Dittgen