Abstract: A process for the preparation of 3,5-dichloropyridine comprising reacting a trichloropyridine, a tetrachloropyridine or pentachloropyridine with zinc metal, in the presence of an acidic compound and at a temperature in the range 50-120° C.

Abstract: In a testing system for chemical substances or substance mixtures, especially for potential plant protection compositions, the chemical substance to be tested or the substance mixture to be tested is applied to a test specimen, especially to plants or parts of plants. When a predetermined period of time has elapsed, the test specimen is examined for the activity of the substance or substance mixture. For this purpose, first of all a type of test specimen is selected from a stock of test specimens, and the substances to be tested are selected from a stock of substances to be tested. The selected type of test specimen and the selected substances are identified (BC1, BC2) by means of a machine-readable code and those codes are supplied to a memory unit (12).

Abstract: Compounds of formula I wherein the substituents are defined as in claim 1, as well as the agronomically acceptable salts, isomers and enantiomers of these compounds, as well as the agronomically acceptable salts/N-oxides/isomers/enantiomers of these compounds, are eminently suitable for use as herbicides.

Abstract: Preparation of 2,5-dichlorophenol by selectively oxidizing 1,4-dichlorobenzene using a peroxo-, hydroperoxo-, superoxo- or alkylperoxo-vanadium species in the presence of an &agr;-hydroxy-, dibasic-, tribasic- or sulfonic acid.

Abstract: Undesired plant growth in cultivations of useful plants which are resistant to phopho-herbicides, may be controlled with herbicidal compositions, which contain, in addition to the usual inert formulation assistants, a phospho-herbicide and a synergistic amount of at least one further herbicide selected from the group comprising prosulfuron, primisulfuron, dicamba, pyridate, dimethenamide and its S-enantiomer, metolachlor and its S-enantiomer, fluometuron, propaquizafop, atrazine, clodinafop, norflurazone, ametryn, terbutylazine, simazine, prometryn, NOA-402989, as well as the compounds of formulae

Abstract: A compound of formula (I): wherein R1 represents a group of formula (A) where each of W, X, Y and Z and Z represents either a group CR or the nitrogen atom, provided that not more than two of W, X, Y and Z represent the nitrogen atom and where each R present is independently selected from hydrogen and halogen atoms and cyano, amino, hydrazino, acylamino, hydroxy, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkyl, haloalkoxy, alkenyl, alkenyloxy, alkoxyalkenyl, alkynyl, carboxylic acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryl and heterocyclyl groups, said groups comprising up to 6 carbon atoms, and wherein R2 represents hydrogen or cyano or a group selected from alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, aralkyl, heteroarylalkyl, alkenyl, aralkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkanesulfonyl, arenesulfonyl, alkanyloxycarbonyl, aralkyloxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, heterocyclylalkyl, carbamyl or dithiocarboxyl groups, said groups comprising from 1 to 15 carbon atoms, said groups being optionally substituted with one or more substituents selecte

Abstract: Solid water-dispersible compositions containing microencapsulated pesticides are produced by spray-drying an aqueous suspension of said pesticides in the presence of a water-soluble polymer.

Abstract: Raney copper, which is doped (promoted) with an effective quantity of a doping (promoting) agent selected from the group boric acid, onium fluorides, salts of fluorine complex anions, and heteropoly acids, represents an outstanding oxidation catalyst for amine-group-containing primary amines to carboxylic acids.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), in which the substituents are as defined in claim 1 and the agrochemically tolerated salts M+ and all stereoisomers and tautomers of the compounds of formula (I) are suitable for use as herbicides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to surfactants useful in life science and industrial formulations. More particularly, the invention relates to surfactants of alkoxylated amine neutralized by aromatic sulfonic acid and pesticide formulations containing the same.

Abstract: A herbicidal synergistic composition, comprising, besides customary inert formulation auxiliaries, a compound of formula I and a synergistically active amount of at least one active ingredient selected from among the compounds of formula II  in which A is a group X is —O—, —CH2— or —NH—; Y is OCH3; E is N; R1 is OC2H5, O(CH2)2OCH3

Abstract: The present invention relates to 3-substituted and 2,3-disubstituted pyridine compounds which are useful as intermediates in the synthesis of pyridylsulfonylurea herbicides. The invention also relates to arylation of alcohols using a pyridinediazonium salt. More particularly the arylation process of the instant invention relates to the synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted pyridine compounds via anhydrous diazotization of 3-aminopyridines to form a diazonium salt intermediate that is then reacted with the appropriate alcohol to produce the desired product. The invention additionally relates to pyridine-3-diazonium salt intermediates.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) in which the substituents are as defined in claim 1 are suitable for use as herbicides.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I and disulfides thereof and salts thereof are important intermediate products for the preparation of compounds having a microbicidal and plant-immunizing action, of the formula III In the compounds of the formulae I and III: X is halogen, n is 0,1,2 or 3; Z is CN, CO—A or CS—A, A is hydrogen, halogen, OR1, SR2 and N(R3)R4; R1 to R4 are hydrogen, a substituted or unsubstituted, open-chain, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radical containing not more than 8 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radical containing not more than 10 carbon atoms, substituted or unsubstituted benzyl or phenethyl, a substituted or unsubstituted alkanoyl group containing not more than 8 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted benzoyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclyl radical; or R3 and R4, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are bonded, are a 5- or 6-membered, substit

Abstract: The present invention relates to a surfactant for general use in agricultural compositions, including, but not limited to herbicidal, fungicidal and insecticidal formulations comprised of two components: an alkoxylated tristyrylphenol acid neutralized to the desired pH or properties with an appropriate amount of alkoxylated alkyl amine.

Abstract: A selective herbicidal composition for controlling grasses and weeds in crops of cultivated plants, comprising a) a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula I  wherein Q is the group R1 is hydrogen, —COO—C1-C4-alkyl, —S—C1-C4-alkyl or —SO—C1-C4-alkyl; and b) to antagonise the herbicide, an antidotally effective amount of a safener of formula II  or the ethyl esters thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bag packaging system composed of a bag sealable to contain a liquid, in which the bag is composed of a continuous outer water soluble film and an inner continuous protective film layer that allows storage therein of a liquid that would chemically or physically react with the water soluble film but is prevented from doing so by the presence of the continuous protective film layer on the inner portion of the bag.

Abstract: Propargylether derivatives of formula I including the optical isomers thereof and mixtures of such isomers, wherein R1 is hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl or optionally substituted aryl, R2 and R3 are each independently hydrogen or alkyl, R4 is alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl, R5, R6, R7, and R8 are each independently hydrogen or alkyl and R9 is a group R10 is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl, R11 is hydrogen or optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl, Z is hydrogen —CO—R16, —COOR16, —CO—COOR16 or —CONR16R17, R12 is hydrogen, or optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl, R13 is hydrogen or alkyl, R14 is hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl or cycloalkyl-alkyl, R15 is alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted aryl-alkyl, and R16 and R17 are independently of each other hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted

Abstract: Novel pyrimidin-4-one and pyrimidin-4-thione derivatives of formula (I) wherein A is phenyl, thienyl (including all 3 isomers), thiazolyl or pyridyl; X is oxygen or sulfur; R1 is hydrogen, halogen or trimethylsilyl; R2 is hydrogen, halogen or trimethysilyl; and at least one of R1 and R2 is not hydrogen; R3 is C1-C6alkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6haloalkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl, C2-C6haloalkynyl, —(CH2)n—C3-C8cycloalkyl which are unsubstitituted or substituted by halogen, C1-C6alkyl or C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C4alkoxy-C1-C6alkyl; C1-C4alkoxy-C2-C6alkenyl; C1-C4alkoxy-C2-C6alkenyl; C1-C4alkythio-C1-C6alkyl; C1-C4alkylthio-C2-C6alkenyl; C1-C4alkythio-C2-C6alkynyl; mono-C1-C4alkylamin-C1-C6alkyl; mono-C1-C4alkylamin-C1-C6alkenyl; mono-C1-C4alkylamin-C2-C6alkynyl; —(CH2)n—C1-C4alkoxy-C3-C6cycloalkyl; —(CH2)n—C1-C4alkylthio-C3-C6cycloalkyl; —(CH2)2-mono-C1-C4alkylamin-C3-C6cycloalkyl; or N═CR9R10; n is 1, 2, 3, or 4; R4, R5, R6, R7, and R8 are each independently of the

Abstract: The invention relates to novel fungicidal compositions having a synergistically increased action, wherein component a) is a thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-one of formula I wherein R1 is halogen, R2 is C1-C5alkyl, —CH2-cyclopropyl and R3 is C1-C5alkyl, —CH2-cyclopropyl; in association with b) either an anilinopyrimidine fungicide (II), or an azole fungicide (III), or a morpholine fungicide (IV), or a strobilurin compound (V), or a pyrrole compound (VI), or a phenylamide (VII), or a dithiocarbamate fungicide selected from mancozeb, maneb, metiram and zineb, or a copper compound selected from copper hydroxide, coopper oxychloride, copper sulfate and oxine-copper, or a phthalimide compound (VIII), or prochloraz, or triflumizole, or pyrifenox, or acibenzolar-S-methyl, or chlorothalonil, or cymoxanil, or dimethomorph, or famoxadone, or fenhexamide, or fenarimol, or fluazinam, or fosetyl-aluminium, orquinoxyfen, or fenpropidine, or spiroxamine, or carbendazime, or thlabendazole, or