Patents Assigned to Agrevo UK Limited
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Patent number: 6541630Abstract: The invention provides the use in combating fungi of compounds of general formula I wherein R1 is hydrogen, hydroxy, acyl, acyloxy, optionally substituted amino, Ra, Ra3Si, RaS or RaO, where Ra is optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted alkenyl, optionally substituted alkynyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted cycloalkenyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heterocyclyl; Z is oxygen or sulfur; M is a thiophene ring; and R3 and R4, which may be the same or different, have the same meaning as Ra or can be optionally substituted amino, hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nitro or a group ORc or S(O)mRc, where Rc has the same meaning as Ra or is hydrogen or acyl and m is 0, 1 or 2; or R3 and R4 together with the atoms to which they are attached form an optionally substituted carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; together with tautomers of compounds where R1 is hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2002Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: John Frederick Atherall, Thomas Lawley Hough, Stephen David Lindell, Mary Josephine O'Mahony, John Henry Parsons, Elizabeth Anne Saville-Stones
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Patent number: 6432964Abstract: The invention provides the use in combating fungi of compounds of general formula (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen, hydroxy, acyl, acyloxy, optionally substituted amino, Ra, Ra3Si, RaS or RaO, where Ra is optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted alkenyl, optionally substituted alkynyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, optionally substituted cycloalkenyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heterocyclyl; R2 has the same meaning as Ra or can be hydrogen; Z is oxygen or sulfur, M is a thiophene ring, and R3 and R4, which may be the same or different, have the same meaning as Ra or can be optionally substituted amino, hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nitro or a group ORc or S(O)mRc, where Rc has the same meaning as Ra or is hydrogen or acyl and m is 0, 1 or 2; or R3 and R4 together with the atoms to which they are attached form an optionally substituted carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; together with tautomers of compounds where R1 is hydrogen.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1999Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: John Frederick Atherall, Thomas Lawley Hough, Stephen David Lindell, Mary Josephine O'Mahony, John Henry Parsons, Elizabeth Anne Saville-Stones
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Publication number: 20020035116Abstract: Fluquinconazole can be used to combat wood damaging fungi.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2001Publication date: March 21, 2002Applicant: AgrEvo UK LimitedInventors: Shelley Myles-Gardiner, Philip Eric Russell, Michael Allan Webb, Robin John Williams
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Patent number: 6303616Abstract: Fluquinconazole can be used to combat wood damaging fungi.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1999Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: Shelley Myles-Gardiner, Philip Eric Russell, Michael Allan Webb, Robin John Williams
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Patent number: 6114340Abstract: An improved fungicidal composition is a mixture of (a) fungicide used to combat phytopathogenic fungi and (b) at least one phosphonate or phosphinate of formula R.sup.1 R.sup.2 P(O)OR.sup.3 where R.sup.1 is C.sub.6-20 alkyl, C.sub.6-20 alkoxy or optionally substituted phenyl, R.sup.2 is benzyl, C.sub.6-20 alkyl optionally interrupted by NH or O, di-C.sub.6-20 alkylamino or the group --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --R.sup.1 P(O)OR.sup.3, and R.sup.3 C.sub.6-20 alkyl. Some of the compounds of formula (I) are novel.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1999Date of Patent: September 5, 2000Assignee: AgrEvo UK LimitedInventors: Hans-Jerg Kleiner, Martin Mach, Heinz Hagemeister, Dieter Regnat, Herbert Buschhaus, Hans-Peter Jende, David Stock, Geoffrey Gower Briggs
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Patent number: 6034121Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## where one of Z and Y is CO and the other is C--W--R.sup.2 and the dotted line indicates a double bond is present where necessary to meet valency requirements, W is O, S(O).sub.n, N(R.sup.3), N(R.sup.3)(R.sup.4), N(R.sup.3)O or ON(R.sup.3); R.sup.1 is hydrogen, or an optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl or heterocyclyl group; R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, which may be the same or different, are as defined above for R.sup.1, or are acyl, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 or R.sup.2 and R.sup.4 or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together with the nitrogen or oxygen to which they are attached form an optionally substituted ring which may contain other hetero atoms; each X, which may be the same as or different from any other X, is halogen, CN, NO.sub.2, SF.sub.5, B(OH).sub.2, triakylsilyl or a group E, OE or S(O).sub.n E where E is a group as defined hereinbefore for R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1998Date of Patent: March 7, 2000Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: Mary Josephine O'Mahony, Peter John West, Jacqueline Anne MacRitchie, Stephen David Lindell, Peter Millward
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Patent number: 6030977Abstract: Combining pyrimethanil with an organic acid having a volatility of less than 2 Pa at 20.degree. C. results in a product which has valuable physical and biological properties.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1998Date of Patent: February 29, 2000Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: David Stock, Geoffrey Gower Briggs, Donald James Simpson
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Patent number: 5885935Abstract: Herbicidal sulfonamides of the formula: ##STR1## and salts thereof, where: A represents a substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring, or a 5- or 6-membered substituted or unsubstituted heteroaromatic ring; Q is --O--, --S-- or a group --CXX'--; X and X', which may be the same or different, are each hydrogen, halogen, cyano, an optionally-substituted alkyl group, or a group --OR.sup.a, --SR.sup.a, or --COR.sup.b ; or one of X and X' represents hydroxy and the other is as defined above; or X and X' together represent .dbd.O or .dbd.S; R.sup.a is an optionally-substituted alkyl, aryl or acyl group; R.sup.b is an optionally-substituted alkyl or aryl group, or a group --OR.sup.c or --NR.sup.c R.sup.d ; R.sup.c and R.sup.d, which may be the same or different, are each hydrogen, or an optionally-substituted alkyl or aryl group; Y is nitrogen or a group CR.sup.9 ; R.sup.1 is an optionally-substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocyclyl, benzoheterocyclyl or amino group; R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 1996Date of Patent: March 23, 1999Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: Peter Stuart Gates, Graham Peter Jones, David Edward Saunders
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Patent number: 5786165Abstract: Potential herbicides can be identified by testing compounds in an AMP deaminase inhibition assay. Also disclosed is the use as a herbicide of a compound which is an inhibitor of AMP deaminase in planta and causes elevated ATP levels in susceptible plants.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1997Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: Jane Elizabeth Dancer, Stephen David Lindell
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Patent number: 5756524Abstract: A compound of formula I ##STR1## X is O or S; A is 6-alkoxy-3-pyridyl optionally substituted by halogen;Y is hydrogen or alkyl;R.sup.3 is alkyl or a metal salt complex thereof. This invention contains fungicidal compositions and are used to combat cytopathogenic fungi.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1996Date of Patent: May 26, 1998Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: Peter Dominic Riordan, Susan Elizabeth Osbourn, Ian Kenneth Boddy
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Patent number: 5604181Abstract: Herbicidal compounds of formula (I) and salts thereof, where A is --N.dbd. or --CH.dbd.; X is --OH, --OR.sup.10, --SH, --SR.sup.10, --SCN, NH.sub.2, --NHacyl, --CH.sub.2 OH, --CH.sub.2 OR.sup.9 or --CN; R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, each represent alkyl, alkoxy, haloalkyl, haloalkoxy, halo, alkylamino or dialkylamino; R.sup.3 is --CN, --COOR.sup.5, --CONR.sup.6 R.sup.7, --CSNH.sub.2, --CHO, --CH.dbd.Z, --CH(Oalkyl).sub.2, --CH.sub.2 OH, --CH.sub.2 OR.sup.9, --COSR.sup.4a, --CS.sub.2 R.sup.4a, or a substituted or unsubstituted 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic group linked via a ring carbon atom which is between two ring heteroatoms; R.sup.4 and R.sup.4a, which may be the same or different, are each H, or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, aralkyl or heteroaryl group; R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 1995Date of Patent: February 18, 1997Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: Thomas L. Hough, Peter S. Gates
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Patent number: 5559081Abstract: Herbicidal sulfonamides of the formula: ##STR1## and salts thereof, where: A represents a substituted or unsubstituted benzene ring, or a 5- or 6-membered substituted or unsubstituted heteroaromatic ring; Q is --O--, --S-- or a group --CXX'--; X and X', which may be the same or different, are each hydrogen, halogen, cyano, an optionally-substituted alkyl group, or a group --OR.sup.a, --SR.sup.a, or --COR.sup.b ; or one of X and X' represents hydroxy and the other is as defined above; or X and X' together represent .dbd.O or .dbd.S; R.sup.a is an optionally-substituted alkyl, aryl or acyl group; R.sup.b is an optionally-substituted alkyl or aryl group, or a group --OR.sup.c or --NR.sup.c R.sup.d ; R.sup.c and R.sup.d, which may be the same or different, are each hydrogen, or an optionally-substituted alkyl or aryl group; Y is nitrogen or a group CR.sup.9 ; R.sup.1 is an optionally-substituted alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heterocyclyl, benzoheterocyclyl or amino group; R.sup.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1994Date of Patent: September 24, 1996Assignee: Agrevo UK LimitedInventors: Peter S. Gates, Graham P. Jones, David E. Saunders