Abstract: 2,4,4-Trichlorobutadienyl-1-phosphate and 1-phosphonates are novel compounds, and are effective against organisms such as insects, acarides, and nematodes, and are suitable for application to plants.
Abstract: A process for making a homogeneous solidified alloy having at least one component with a comparatively high vapor pressure, in which the alloy components are enclosed in the form of a homogeneous melt in a sealed ampoule and cooled therein, the volume free of melt in said ampoule being during the entire cooling step of the melt between 0.001 and 1 cc, and the ratio of the volume of the ampoule free of melt and that of the ampoule filled with melt is not larger than 1:5.
Abstract: N-phenylcarbamoyl-4-methylpiperidine herbicides having the formula ##SPC1##Wherein R is a member selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and fluorine, compositions containing the same and the selective herbicidal method of use as a selective preemergence herbicide toward corn and a selective postemergence herbicide toward barley and, when R is H, toward corn.