Abstract: The present invention provides pesticidal mixtures comprising a component A, a component B and a component C, wherein component A is a compound of formula (I) wherein one of Y1 and Y2 is S, SO or SO2 and the other is CH2; L is a direct bond or methylene; A1 and A2 are C—H, or one of A1 and A2 is C—H and the other is N; R1 is hydrogen or methyl; R2 is chlorodifluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl; R3 is 3,5-dibromo-phenyl, 3,5-dichloro-phenyl, 3,4-dichloro-phenyl, or 3,4,5-trichloro-phenyl; R4 is methyl; R5 is hydrogen; or R4 and R5 together form a bridging 1,3-butadiene group; component B is a compound selected from Sedaxane, Fludioxonil, Metalaxyl, Mefenoxam, Cyprodinil, Azoxystrobin, Tebuconazole, Difenoconazole, Thiabendazole, Fluopyram, Penflufen, N-[9-(dichloromethylene)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-1,4-methanonaphthalen-5-yl]-3-(difluoromethyl)-1-methyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamide and Fuxapyroxad; or component B is a compound selected from Tefluthrin, Lambda-cyhalothrin, Abamectin, Spinosad, Spinetoram, Chlorpyrifos, Thi

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a branched-chain alcohol ethoxylate adjuvant as a rapid visual indicator of a locus of herbicidal treatment. In particular the invention includes novel herbicidal compositions comprising glyphosate and such an adjuvant, as well as the use of such compositions in combating unwanted plant growth. Compositions of the invention not only exhibit rapid symptomology, but also provide long-lasting control of unwanted plant growth across a broad spectrum of plants.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of compounds of formula I wherein R1 and R2 are each independently of the other hydrogen or C1-C5alkyl and R3 is CF3 or CF2H, by a) reaction of a compound of formula II wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula III wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and b) reaction of that compound with at least one reducing agent to form a compound of formula IV wherein R1 and R2 are as defined for formula I, and (c) reaction of that compound with a compound of formula V wherein Q is chlorine, fluorine, bromine, iodine, hydroxy or C1-C6alkoxy and R3 is as defined for formula I, to form the compound of formula I; and to novel intermediates for use in that process.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula I: (I) wherein the substituents have the definitions as defined in claim 1 or a salt or a N-oxide thereof, their use and methods for the control and/or prevention of microbial infection, particularly fungal infection, in plants and to processes for the preparation of these compounds.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of increasing the environmental stress tolerance of a plant, to methods of improving the quality and/or yield of a plant crop, to methods of application of agrochemicals having a physiological effect on a plant in the plant irrigation water, and to crops produced using said methods.

Abstract: The invention relates to fungicidal compositions comprising as active ingredient a combination of components A) and B) as defined in the patent claims, to a method of controlling phytopathogenic diseases on crop plants using such a compositions and to a method of protecting natural substances of vegetable and/or animal origin and/or their processed forms using such a composition.

Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein R1 is C1-C4alkyl or C1-C4haloalkyl; R2 is C1-C4alkyl; R3 is hydrogen or halogen; R4 is hydrogen, C1-C4alkyl or C1-C4haloalkyl; R5 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-C4alkyl or C1-C4haloalkyl; G1 is a cyclohexenyl group which is mono- or polysubstituted by substituents selected from the group consisting of C1-C6alkyl, C1-C6alkoxy, C3-C6cycloalkyl and phenyl; said cyclohexenyl group can form together with a C1-C4 alkylene group a bicyclic system which can be mono- or poly-substituted by substituents selected from the group consisting of C1-C6alkyl, C1-C6alkoxy, C3-C6cycloalkyl and phenyl; are suitable for use as microbiocides.

Abstract: Cyclohexanedione compounds of Formula (I) wherein R1 is methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, iso-propyl, cyclopropyl, halomethyl, haloethyl, halogen, vinyl, ethynyl, methoxy, ethoxy, halomethoxy or haloethoxy, R2 and R3 are, independently hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6alkyl, C1-C6haloalkyl, C1-C6alkoxy, C1-C6haloalkoxy, C2-C6alkenyl, C2-C6haloalkenyl, C2-C6alkynyl, C3-C6alkenyloxy, C3-C6haloalkenyloxy, C3-C6alkynyloxy, C3-C6cycloalkyl, C1-C6alkylthio, C1-C6alkylsulfinyl, C1-C6alkylsulfonyl, C1-C6alkylsulfonyloxy, C1-C6haloalkylsulfonyloxy, cyano, nitro, phenyl, phenyl substituted by C1-C4alkyl, C1-C3Cahaloalkyl, C1-C3alkoxy, C1-C3haloalkoxy, cyano, nitro, halogen, C1-C3alkylthio, C1-C3alkylsulfinyl or C1-C3alkylsulfonyl, or heteroaryl or heteroaryl substituted by C1-C3Calkyl, d.

Abstract: The present invention provides stereoselective processes for the preparation of compounds of formula (I) wherein P is phenyl, naphthyl, a 6-membered heteroaryl group containing one or two nitrogen atoms as ring members, or a 10-membered bicyclic heteroaryl group containing one or two nitrogen atoms as ring members, and wherein the phenyl, naphthyl and heteroaryl groups are optionally substituted; R1 is chlorodifluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl; R2 is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; n is 0 or 1; including the process comprising (a-i) reacting a compound of formula II wherein P, R1 and R2 are as defined for the compound of formula I; with nitromethane in the presence a chiral catalyst to give a compound of formula III Wherein P, R1 and R2 are as defined for the compound of formula I; and (a-ii) reductively cyclising the compound of formula III to give the compound of formula I.

Abstract: Methods, compositions, and uses of herbicide safeners alone, and in combination with fungicides, to reduce mycotoxin accumulation, fungal infection and related disease in agricultural crops, plants and harvested plant material are disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling aphids that are resistant to neonicotinoid insecticides, using a trifluoromethylpyri(mi)dine derivative in free form or in agrochemically acceptable salt form as well as the use of compositions comprising said compound to control neonicontinoid resistant insects. In particular the methods relate to controlling neonicotinoid resistant insects in the Aphididae family, that are resistant to one or more neonicotinoid insecticides. Methods of the invention find particular use in controlling neonicotinoid resistant insects in crops of useful plants. Furthermore, the invention extends to methods of controlling plant viruses spread by neonicotinoid resistant insects.

Abstract: A method of reducing damage to plant propagation material and plant organs which grow at a later time by a representative of the class Nematoda, which method comprises (i) treating the propagation material with (A) a chelating agent, and optionally (B) a macrocyclic lactone compound or another pesticide, before the material is sown or planted, or (ii) applying (A) a chelating agent, and optionally (B) a macrocyclic lactone compound or another pesticide, to the locus of the material or the treated material defined in (i) before its planting, and/or at its planting and/or during its growth.

Abstract: A compound of the formula (I) where, for example, W, X and Y are each CH; R1 and R6 together with the adjacent nitrogen forms a 3 to 10-membered saturated ring, wherein the ring may contain, in addition to the nitrogen and carbon ring members, 1, 2 or 3 heteroatoms and/or heteroatom groups as ring members, independently of one another, selected from the group consisting of sulfur, CO, SO, SO2 and N—R7 and/or the ring may carry 1, 2 or 3 radicals, independently of one another, each selected, for example, from the group consisting of halogen, cyano, nitro, amino, and C1-C6-alkyl. R2 is, for example, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-haloalkoxy or C1-C6-alkoxy-C1-C6-alkoxy, and R7 is for example, R10C(?O), C1-C6 alkyl or C1-C6-haloalkyl; and/or salts thereof; and their use as pesticidal agents.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a compound of formula (I), which process comprises a) reacting a compound of formula (II), wherein X is chloro or bromo, with an organometallic species to (III) reacting the halobenzyne of formula (III) so formed with (IV) wherein R1 and R2 are hydrogen or C1-C6alkyl; to (V), b) hydrogenating V in the presence of a metal catalyst to (VI), c) ozonising (VI) to (VII) d) converting (VII) in the presence of a phosphane and CCI4 or CHCI3 to (VIII) (VIII), and either e1) reacting VIII with NH3 in the presence of a catalyst to (IX) and f) reacting IX in the presence of a base with the compound of formula (X), to the compound of formula (I); or e2) reacting the compound of formula (VIII), in the presence of a solvent, a base, a copper catalyst and at least one ligand with (Xa), to the compound of formula (I).

Abstract: Stabilized liquid cyclopropene compositions are provided which comprise flowable, non-aqueous dispersion concentrates comprising a) a continuous substantially water-immiscible liquid phase and b) a dispersed solid phase comprising cured polymer particles prepared from a polymerizable thermoset resin which particles contain at least one cyclopropene complex, optionally a non-porous particulate mineral, and optionally a non-cross-linkable mobile chemical distributed therein, and wherein the outside surfaces of the particles comprise a colloidal solid material. The compositions of the invention can be used directly or with dilution to combat pests or as plant growth regulators.

Abstract: A pesticidal composition comprising (a) a pesticidal effective amount of at least one compound of formula I in which Q is i or ii or iii or an agrochemically acceptable salt or an N-oxide thereof, and (b) a plant growth regulator, where the ratio of compound of formula I to plant growth regulator is from 20:1 to 1:25.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of formula (I) which process comprises a) reacting a compound of formula (II), wherein X is chloro or bromo, with an organometallic species to (III), wherein X is chloro or bromo; reacting the halobenzyne with a fulvene (IV), to a compound of formula (V) wherein X is chloro or bromo; b) hydrogenating V in the presence of a suitable metal catalyst to a compound of formula (VI) wherein X is chloro or bromo; and either c1) reacting the compound of formula VI with NH3 in the presence of a catalyst comprising palladium and at least one ligand to the compound of formula (VII); and d) reacting the compound of formula VII in the presence of a base with a compound of formula (VIII), to the compound of formula I; or c2 reacting the compound of formula (VI) in the presence of a copper catalyst and a ligand with the compound of formula (VIIIa), to the compound of formula (I).

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of the compound of formula (I), which process comprises a) reacting a compound of formula (II), wherein X is chloro or bromo, with an organometallic species in an inert atmosphere to a halobenzyne of formula (X), reacting the halobenzyne of formula X so formed with cyclopentadiene to (III), b) reacting III in the presence of an inert solvent with an oxidant to (IV), c) reacting IV in the presence of a Lewis acid and a hydride source to (V), d) reacting V in the presence of an oxidizing agent, a base and an inert solvent to (VI), e) converting VI in the presence of a phosphane and CCl4 or CHCl3 to (VII), and either f1) reacting VII with NH3 in the presence of a catalyst to the compound of formula (VIII); and g) reacting VIII in the presence of a base with a compound of formula (IX), to the compound of formula (I); or f2) reacting the compound of formula (VII), in the presence of a solvent, a base, a copper catalyst and at least one ligand with the compound

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

Abstract: Stable, single-phase pesticidal emulsifiable concentrates are provided which comprise (a) a pesticide mixture comprising a major amount of a water-insoluble pesticide and a minor amount of a water-soluble pesticidal salt; (b) a solvent system comprising (i) a major amount of an organic solvent comprising at least one non aqueous polar solvent; and (ii) a minor amount of water; and, optionally, (c) an emulsifying surfactant system enabling an oil in water emulsion to be formed when the concentrate formulation is diluted upon addition to water.