Patents Assigned to Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
  • NOVEL HERBICIDES
    Publication number: 20140005389
    Abstract: Pyrandione, thiopyrandione and cyclohexanetrione compounds, which are suitable for use as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Christopher John MATHEWS, James Nicholas SCUTT, Michel MUEHLEBACH
  • Insecticidal compounds
    Patent number: 8618173
    Abstract: Novel aromatic compounds of formula (I): wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, R1, R2, R5, G1, G2, Q1, Q2, Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 are as defined in claim 1; or a salt or N-oxide thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes for preparing compounds of formula (I), to insecticidal, acaricidal, nematicidal or molluscicidal compositions comprising them and to methods of using them to combat and control insect, acarine, nematode or mollusc pests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Andre Denis Stoller, Pierre Joseph Marcel Jung, Christopher Richard Ayles Godfrey, William Lutz, Peter Maienfisch, Werner Zambach
  • Microbiocides
    Patent number: 8618023
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) in which the substituents are as defined in claim 1 are suitable for use as microbiocides. Formula (I), wherein X is oxygen or sulfur; A is a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring containing one to three heteroatoms, each independently selected from oxygen, nitrogen and sulphur, or a phenyl ring; the heterocyclic ring or the phenyl being substituted by the groups R6, R7 and R8; R6, R7 and R8 are each, independently, hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nitro, C1-4 alky, C1-4 halogenalkyl, C1-4 halogenalkoxy, C1-4 alkoxy(C1-4)alkyl or C1-4halogenalkoxy(C1-4)alkyl, provided that at least one of R6, R7 and R8 is not hydrogen; B is a phenyl, naphthyl or quinolinyl group, which is substituted by one or more substituents R9.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Stierli, John J. Taylor, Harald Walter, Paul Anthony Worthington
  • METHODS FOR CONTROLLING VARRO MITES
    Publication number: 20130338222
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions comprising spirodiclofen and/or spiromesifen for the control of bee mites and for the reduction of bee mite infestations, such as the control and reduction of infestations of parasitic bee mites, such as Varroa destructor in bee, preferably honey bee, colonies, and to the treatment of varroatosis in bees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventor: Andre Fougeroux
  • Condensed anthran I lami de derivatives as insecticides
    Patent number: 8598078
    Abstract: Compounds of Formula I wherein the substituents are as defined in Claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts and all stereoisomers and tautomeric forms of the compounds of formula I can be used as agrochemical active ingredients and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Olivier Loiseleur, Roger Graham Hall, André Denis Stoller, Gerald Wayne Craig, André Jeanguenat, Andrew Edmunds
  • Insecticidal combinations
    Patent number: 8598130
    Abstract: A method of controlling or preventing damage to a plant, which comprises applying on the plant or a surrounding area thereof a combination comprising (I) abamectin, and (II) cyflumetofen, in any desired sequence or simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Peter Maienfisch, Max Angst, Ottmar Franz Hueter, Jorge Cisneros, Paulo Aramaki, Alfred Rindlisbacher
  • Plant growth regulation
    Patent number: 8580709
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the plant growth regulation of and/or enhancing dicotyledonous crop plants, by applying to the plants trinexapac-ethyl and prohexadione-calcium, and to use of a composition comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventor: Ulrich Johannes Haas
  • Solid forms of a microbiocide
    Patent number: 8580835
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel solid forms of 3-difluoromethyl-1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylic acid (9-isopropyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,4-methano-naphthalen-5-yl)-amide, such as crystal modifications and hydrates, compositions comprising these novel solid forms and to the use thereof in the control of disease infestation in cultivated plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Edward Bonnett, Neil George, Ian Kevin Jones, Shailesh Shah
  • Insecticides
    Patent number: 8580785
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim (1), and the agrochemically acceptable salts and all stereoisomers and tautomeric forms of the compounds of formula (I) can be used as agrochemical active ingredients and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: André Jeanguenat, Roger Graham Hall, Olivier Loiseleur, Stephan Trah, Patricia Durieux, Andrew Edmunds, André Stoller
  • PLANT IRRIGATION METHODS WITH 1-MCP
    Publication number: 20130298290
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel methods of increasing the abiotic environmental stress tolerance of a plant, to methods of improving the quality and/or yield of a plant crop, to methods of application of a cyclopropene such as 1-MCP to a plant, and to crops produced using said methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Ulrich Johannes Haas, Christophe Weider, Ronald Zeun, David Charles Ross, Daniel Warden Kidder, Yueqian Zhen, Tim Malefyt
  • PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF DICHLOROFULVENE
    Publication number: 20130281744
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of formula (I) which process comprises pyrolysing a compound of formula (II) wherein X is chloro or bromo, and to compounds which may be used as intermediates for the manufacture of the compound of formula I and to the preparation of said intermediates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: George Robert Hodges, Dominik Faber, Alan James Robinson, Andrew Charles Shaw
  • 3-amino-benzo [D] isothiazole dioxide derivatives and their use as pesticides
    Patent number: 8563744
    Abstract: A compound of Formula (I) or Formula (II) where W is C—R3; X is C—R4; Y is C—R5; R1 and R6, independently of each other, is, for example, H, C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-alkynyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl or C1-C6-alkyl-C(?O); R2 is H; and R3, R4 and R5, independently of each other, are, for example, H, halogen, cyano, nitro, C1-C6-alkyl, or C1-C6-haloalkyl; provided that in formula II R1 is H and R6 is as defined above; and in formula I that (a) at least one of R1 and R3 to R6 is other than hydrogen, (b) R3 or R4 is other than C1 when in each instance the remaining five groups of R1 to R6 are hydrogen, and (c) (i) R3 is other than methyl, (ii) R4 is other than C1, (iii) R5 is other than C1 and (iv) R3 is not C1 when R5 is methoxy, when in each instance (i) to (iv) R1 is H, R6 is MeC(?O), and remaining groups of R2 to R5 are hydrogen; and/or salts thereof; and their use as as pesticidal agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Werner Zambach, Ottmar Franz Hueter, Peter Renold, Thomas Pitterna, Peter Maienfisch
  • Processes for the alkylation of pyrazoles
    Patent number: 8563747
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) in particular, wherein a compound of formula (II) is reacted with a dialkylsulphate. R1 is C1-C4haloalkyl; R2 is optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; and R3 is methyl or ethyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Linhua Wang, Jefferson Thomas Ebert
  • Submicron mesotrione compositions
    Patent number: 8563471
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel suspension concentrate and suspoemulsion formulations comprising a herbicidally active amount of 2-(2?-nitro-4?-methylsulphonylbenzoyl)-1,3-cyclohexanedione(mesotrione), as well as agrochemically acceptable salts thereof, having a particle size, as defined herein, of less than 1 micron and to the use of thereof in controlling weeds in crops of useful plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hopkinson, Giulia Capuzzi, Sarah Cush, Carolyn Moore
  • PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF 3-HALOALKYLPYRAZOLES
    Publication number: 20130274481
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) wherein R1 is C1-C4 haloalkyl; R2 is optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; and R3 is methyl or ethyl; comprising reacting a compound of formula (IV) wherein R1, R2 and R3 are as defined for the compound of formula I; with an alkylating agent in the presence of an amide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Linhua Wang, Ritesh Bharat Sheth
  • Processes relating to the alkylation of pyrazoles
    Patent number: 8558006
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) comprising reacting a compound of formula (IV) with a compound of formula III or (IIIA) in the presence of an acid; wherein R1 is C1-C4 haloalkyl; R2 is optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; R3 is methyl or ethyl; R4 is hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; and n is 0 or 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Linhua Wang, Ritesh Bharat Sheth, Maren Fuerst
  • Microbiocidal heterocycles
    Patent number: 8557821
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heterocyclic compounds of formula (I) which have microbiocidal activity, in particular fungicidal activity, as well as methods of using the compounds of formula (I) to control microbes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Sulzer-Mosse, Clemens Lamberth, Mathias Stephan Respondek, Laura Quaranta
  • SUGARCANE COATING
    Publication number: 20130263504
    Abstract: Methods and coatings for a sugarcane stem section are shown and described. In one example, the disclosure includes a stem section that has been coated with a fatty acid component. In another example, the disclosure includes a method of growing sugarcane comprising planting a stem section that has been coated with a fatty acid component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventor: Rakesh Kumar
  • Herbicidal composition
    Patent number: 8551918
    Abstract: A herbicidal composition comprising, in addition to customary inert formulation excipients, as a mixture of at least one soil-applied herbicide and a lipophilic additive consisting of a paraffin oil derived from the refined fraction of petroleum oil with a distillation range at 10 mm Hg of about 190 °C. to about 280 °C. and with a carbon number distribution from about C13 to about C55.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas Polge
  • Chemical process for the production of haloalkenone ethers
    Patent number: 8552222
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous process for producing a haloalkenone ether of the Formula (I) wherein R1 is C1-C6 haloalkyl, R2 is a C1-C6 alkyl or phenyl, the process comprising:—(i) reacting, in a first continuous stirred tank reactor comprising a solvent, a halide of Formula (II) wherein R1 is as previously defined and R3 is halogen, with a vinyl ether of Formula (III) wherein R2 is as previously defined, to form an intermediate compound of Formula (IV), wherein the concentration of the vinyl ether of Formula (III) in the reaction mass is 15% or less w/w; and (ii) transferring the reaction mass from the first continuous stirred tank reactor into a subsequent continuous stirred tank reactor, wherein the conditions within the subsequent reactor permit the elimination of hydrogen halide (HR3) from the intermediate compound of Formula (IV) to provide the haloalkenone ether of Formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: David Anthony Jackson, Florian Schleth, Devender Singh Negi, Werner Pfaff