Abstract: Disclosed is an ammonia decomposition catalyst which is obtained by heat-treating a complex at a temperature of 360° C. to 900° C. in a reducing atmosphere, wherein the complex containing a polymer having a molecular weight of 1,000 to 500,000 represented by the formula [I], a transition metal coordinated with the polymer, and an activated carbon or a carbon nanotube added thereto. In a case of using the carbon nanotube, an alkali metal compound or an alkaline earth metal compound is added to the heat-treated complex. R1 represents H or hydrocarbon having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, R2 and R3 each represent H, halogen, nitro, acyl, ester, carboxyl, formyl, nitrile, sulfone, aryl, or alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, X and Y each represent H or OH, Z represents CH or N, R4 and R5 each represent H, OH, ether, amino, aryl, or alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, x represents a real number of 1 to 2, y represents a real number of 1 to 3, and n represents a real number of 2 to 120.

Abstract: A pyridone derivative represented by Formula [1] or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof: wherein R1 is a C1-6 alkyl group, a C2-6 alkenyl group, a C2-6 alkynyl group, or the like; R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, or the like; and A is a group represented by Formula A-1, Formula A-2, Formula A-3, Formula A-4, or Formula A-5: The compounds represented by general formula [1] control various weeds growing in upland fields, orchards, paddy fields, and non-crop lands while showing high safety to useful plants and crops.

Abstract: Provided are 2-pyridone derivatives which have excellent herbicidal activity and exhibit high safety to useful crops and so on; salts thereof; and herbicides containing same. In more detail, 2-pyridone derivatives represented by general formula [I] or agrochemically acceptable salts thereof, and herbicides containing these compounds are provided. In general formula [I], X1 is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; X2, X3, and X4 are to each CH or N(O)m; m is an integer of 0 or 1; R1 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-12 alkyl group, or the like; R2 is a halogen atom, a cyano group, or the like; n is an integer of 0 to 4; R3 is a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, or the like; A1 is C(R11R12); A2 is C(R13R14) or C?O; A3 is C(R15R16); and R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, and R16 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a C1-6 alkyl group.

Abstract: A 3,4-dihalogenoisothiazole derivative represented by the general formula [I] (wherein R1 is a halogen atom; A is an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; and R is a C1-C6 alkyl group, a C2-C5 alkenyl group, a C2-C5 alkynyl group, a C3-C6 cycloalkyl group, a phenyl group or a 5- to 10-membered heterocyclic group containing at least one of oxygen atom, sulfur atom and nitrogen atom), or a salt thereof.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing an optically active difluoromethanesulfonanilide derivative exhibiting an excellent herbicidal activity at a low dose. An optically active (R)-2?-(4,6-dimethoxy-pyrimidin-2-yl)hydroxymethyl-1,1-difluoromethanesulfonanilide derivative is represented by the formula (I) (in the formula, R1 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-C4 alkyl group or a C1-C4 alkoxy C1-C4 alkyl group). and this difluoromethanesulfonanilide derivative is produced by subjecting to optical resolution a racemate of 2?-(4,6-dimethoxypyrimidin-2-yl)hydroxymethyl-1,1-difluoromethanesul-fonanilide derivative.

Abstract: A hydrazone compound represented by a General Formula (1) below, a hydrazone compound for forming a metal complex, which is represented by the General Formula (1) below and forms a metal complex by coordination to at least one metal species, a ligand for forming a metal complex including the hydrazone compound, and a monomer for manufacturing a polymer compound including the hydrazone compound: wherein, Py represents a 2-pyridyl group, a 3-pyridyl group, or a 4-pyridyl group.

Abstract: The present invention aims at providing an isoxazoline derivative and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, both having an excellent herbicidal effect and an excellent selectivity between crop and weed. The isoxazoline derivative of the present invention is represented by the following general formula: wherein R1 is a haloalkyl group; R2 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or the like; R3, R4, R5 and R6 are each a hydrogen atom, or the like; Y is a pyrrolyl group, a pyrazolyl group, an isothiazolyl group, an oxazolyl group, an imidazolyl group, a pyridazinyl group, a pyrimidinyl group, a pyrazinyl group, a triazinyl group, a triazolyl group, an oxadiazolyl group, or the like; and n is an integer of 0 to 2.

Abstract: To provide novel 3-triazolylphenyl sulfide derivatives having excellent soil treatment activity as insecticides, miticides or nematicides for agricultural and horticultural plants. 3-Triazolylphenyl sulfide derivatives represented by the formula [1]: wherein R is a cyclopropylmethyl group or a trifluoroethyl group, B2 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a methyl group, B4 is a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group or a C1-C6 alkyl group, and each of A1 and A3 is a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group which may be substituted or an amino group which may be substituted.

Abstract: A substitute aniline compound represented by the following formula (6): wherein, R1, R2 and R3 are each independently an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkoxyalkyl group, a haloalkyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an alkyl-carboxamide group, a nitro group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, an aryloxy group, a halogen atom or a hydrogen atom; and X and Y are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkoxyalkyl group, a haloalkyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxycarbonyl group or halogen. A process for producing the compound formula (6) is also discussed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a 5-alkoxy-4-hydroxymethylpyrazole compound represented by the general formula (3) which comprises reacting a pyrazole compound represented by the general formula (1) (wherein R1 is a substituent such as alkyl group, substituted or unsubstituted group or the like, and R2 is an electron withdrawing group) with a compound represented by the general formula (2) L-R3??(2) (wherein L is a leaving group and R3 is a substituent such as substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or the like) in the presence of a base and formaldehyde.

Abstract: An aryl (1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl) compound is useful for producing a 3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)phenylsulfide compound (useful, e.g., as an insecticide). Also disclosed is a process for producing the compound. The aryl (1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl) compound is represented by the general formula (1), below, wherein R represents a C1-C6 alkyl group or a cyclic C3 alkyl group; A1 represents a hydrogen atom, an amino group, a mono(C1-C6 alkyl amino group or a di(C1-C6 alkyl) amino group; A2 represents a halogen atom, a C1-C6 alkyl group or a cyclic C3 alkyl group; and Z represents a hydrogen atom, a halo-sulfonyl group or a mercapto group.

Abstract: A process for producing a 2-benzylphenol compound represented by the following formula (2): wherein, R1, R2, R3 and R4 may be the same or different and are each independently hydrogen atom, alkyl group or the like; and R5, R6, R7, R8 and R9 are the same or different and are each independently hydrogen atom, alkyl group or the like, the process including reacting, in the presence of a dehydrogenating agent, a benzylidenecyclohexanone compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and R9 have the same definitions as given above.

Abstract: A method for producing a 3-mercaptoaniline compound, which is a known intermediate for a 3-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)phenylsulfide derivative, useful as a pesticide, and a method for producing a compound which can be used as a starting material in producing the 3-mercaptoaniline compound are disclosed. In one embodiment the nitro group and the chlorosulfonyl group of a 3-nitrobenzenesulfonyl chloride compound represented by general formula (1): are reduced in the presence of an acid catalyst to produce a compound of general formula (2): In the above general formulas (1) and (2), R represents an alkyl group or a cyclic alkyl group, and X represents a halogen atom.

Abstract: A pyridone derivative represented by Formula [1] or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof: wherein R1 is a C1-6 alkyl group, a C2-6 alkenyl group, a C2-6 alkynyl group, or the like; R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, or the like; and A is a group represented by Formula A-1, Formula A-2, Formula A-3, Formula A-4, or Formula A-5: The compounds represented by general formula [1] control various weeds growing in upland fields, orchards, paddy fields, and non-crop lands while showing high safety to useful plants and crops.

Abstract: To provide pesticides such as insecticides, miticides and nematicides, which are excellent in the safety, pesticidal effects, residual effectiveness, etc., which further have infiltration, and which can be applied by soil treatment. A pesticide comprising a 3-alkoxy-1-phenyl-pyrazole derivative represented by the formula [I] or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient: wherein, for example, R1 is a C1-C10 alkyl group or the like, R2 is a hydrogen atom or the like, R3 is a hydrogen atom or the like, and each of R4, R5, R6 and R8 which are independent of one another, is a hydrogen atom or the like, and R7 is a C2-C4 haloalkylthio group or the like.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide an oxopyrazine derivative having an excellent herbicidal activity and besides exhibiting high safety for useful crops and the like, or a salt thereof, and a herbicide containing the same. The present invention relates to an oxopyrazine derivative represented by formula [I]: wherein X1 represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom; X2 represents CH or N(O)m; m represents an integer of 0 or 1; R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-C12 alkyl group and the like; R2 represents a halogen atom, a cyano group and the like; R3 is a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom and the like; A1 represents C(R4R5); A2 represents C(R6R7) or C?O; A3 represents C(R8R9); R4 to R9 represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, or a salt thereof, and a herbicide containing these compounds.

Abstract: 3-Arylphenyl sulfide derivatives represented by general formula (I): (wherein R is a C2-C6 alkyl group, a C2-C6 alkenyl group, a C2-C6 alkynyl group or the like, B0 to B2 and B3 are hydrogen atoms, halogen atoms, cyano groups, C1-C4 haloalkyl groups or the like, n is 0, 1 or 2, and Ar is a phenyl ring, a pyridine ring, a thiophene ring, a pyrazole ring or the like), and insecticides and miticides containing the 3-arylphenyl sulfide derivatives as an active ingredient.

Abstract: A novel amide group-containing siloxane amine compound, which is useful as a diamine component of a polybenzimidazole resin, a polybenzoxazole resin, and particularly a polyimide resin, which is derived from an amine monomer, has a chemical structure represented by the formula (1). In the formula (1), R1 and R2 each independently represent an optionally substituted alkylene group; p denotes an integer of 0 to 3; q denotes an integer of 0 to 3; m denotes an integer of 1 to 30; and n denotes an integer of 0 to 20; provided that p and q are not 0 at the same time.

Abstract: To provide a method for producing a (4,5-dihydroisoxazol-3-yl)thiocarboxamidine salt compound simply, safely and in good yield, whereby drawbacks of prior art have been solved. A method for producing a (4,5-dihydroisoxazol-3-yl)thiocarboxamidine salt compound of the formula (2): wherein each of R1 and R2 which are independent of each other, is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or a cycloalkyl group, each of R3 and R4 which are independent of each other, is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, provided that R1 and R2, or R2 and R3, may be bonded to each other to form a cycloalkyl group together with the carbon atoms to which they are bonded, and X2 is a halogen or an anionic residue derived from an acid, which comprises reacting a 3-halogeno-4,5-dihydroisoxazole compound of the formula (1): wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined above, and X1 is a halogen, with thiourea in the presence of an acid.

Abstract: A 1,2-benzoisothiazole derivative or a salt thereof is not harmful to a crop and is remarkably effective against agricultural or horticultural plant diseases such as Pyricularia oryzae, Septoria nodorum, Pseudoperonospora cubensis and Colletotrichum orbiculare, and an agricultural or horticultural plant disease-controlling agent containing the derivative or its salt as an active ingredient. The 1,2-benzoisothiazole derivative is represented by the general formula [I]: (wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, and R2 is a methyl group or a halogen atom), or a salt thereof.