Patents Assigned to Syngenta Limited
  • Methods for the preparation of aryl amides
    Patent number: 8637678
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of initiating a reaction represented by scheme (1), wherein Q is optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; X is halogen or a sulphonate; P is an organic radical; R is hydrogen or an organic radical; wherein the catalyst comprises copper and a ligand; comprising providing the compound of formula III in liquid form prior to contacting the compound of formula III with the catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: George Robert Hodges, Lisa Mitchell, Alan James Robinson
  • HERBICIDAL COMPOUNDS
    Publication number: 20140011677
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth which comprises applying to the plants or to the locus thereof a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I) wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, R3, R4 and R5 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 intermediates used in the preparation of compounds of formula (I), to herbicidal compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and to certain novel pyridopyridines, pyridodiazines and pyridotriazines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Cordingley, Michael Drysdale Turnbull, Nigel James Willetts, Patrick Jelf Crowley
  • Formulations
    Patent number: 8623389
    Abstract: The present invention relates to physically stable oil dispersions. It also relates to a method for activating bentones that are designed for use with a low polarity organic systems. It also relates to physically stable oil dispersions comprising said activated bentone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Mark Richards, Kirsty Jane Williams
  • PATHOGEN SENSOR
    Publication number: 20130334042
    Abstract: A pathogen sensor comprising a growth medium upon which and/or within which a pathogen may grow, the growth medium comprising nutrients which facilitate growth of the pathogen, wherein the pathogen sensor further comprises an electronic detection apparatus configured to detect an electrochemical change mediated by the pathogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Bruce Donaldson Grieve, Sarah Perfect, Sophie Weiss
  • Herbicides
    Patent number: 8598365
    Abstract: Bicyclic dione compounds, and derivatives thereof, which are suitable for use as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Stephane André Marie Jeanmart, Christopher John Mathews, John Benjamin Taylor, Steve Smith
  • METHODS OF PEST CONTROL IN SOYBEAN
    Publication number: 20130317073
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods comprising applying to a crop of soybean plants, the locus thereof, or propagation material thereof, a compound a compound of formula III wherein A3, A4, A4? and A5? are independently C—H, or nitrogen and wherein #1 indicates the bond to X and #2 indicates the bond to cycle B; cycle B is selected from B1 to B6 wherein #1 indicates the bond to cycle A, #2 indicates the bond to R7 and #3 indicates the bond to cycle C; cycle C is phenyl; R5 is chloro, bromo, CF3 or methyl; R7 is chlorodifluoromethyl or trifluoromethyl; each R8 is independently bromo, chloro, fluoro or trifluoromethyl; p is 2 or 3; and wherein X is defined in the claims. The methods are preferably for the control of stinkbugs, in particular Euschistus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Applicants: SYNGENTA LIMITED, SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventors: Christoph Vock, Jerome Yves Cassayre, Myriem El Qacemi
  • Co-crystals
    Patent number: 8592472
    Abstract: The present invention relates to co-crystals of propiconazole and a co-crystal forming compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: James Owen Forrest, Neil George, Rebecca Claire Burton, Manish Maheshbhai Parmar, Matthew David Tandy, Suzanne Marie Buttar, Christopher Stephen Frampton, Adrian St Clair Brown, Alan Patrick Chorlton
  • PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
    Publication number: 20130303372
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the plant growth regulation of and/or enhancing crop plants, by applying to the crop plants a mixture of a plant growth regulator, and jasmonic acid or a salt or ester thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Ulrich Johannes Haas, Tyler L. Harp
  • HERBICIDAL COMPOUNDS
    Publication number: 20130303370
    Abstract: The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) wherein R4 is of sub-formula (a) or (b) and wherein the other substituents are as defined in the specification. The compounds of formula (I) are potentially useful as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicants: SYNGENTA LIMITED, SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventors: Alaric James Avery, Alain De Mesmaeker, Nicholas Phillip Mulholland, Nigel James Willetts, Paul Anthony Worthington
  • 6, 6-dioxo-6-thia-1, 4-diaza-naphthalenes as herbicides
    Patent number: 8569301
    Abstract: The present invention relates to 6,6-dioxo-6-thia-1,4-diaza-naphthalene derivatives of formula (I) where R1, R2, R3a, R3b, R4 and R5 are as defined in claim 1; or a salt or N-oxide thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes and intermediates for making compounds of formula (I), to herbicidal compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and to methods of using compounds of formula (I) to control plant growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Nigel James Willetts, Nicholas Phillip Mulholland, Paul Anthony Worthington, Alaric James Avery
  • COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING ABSCISIC ACID AND A FUNGICIDALLY ACTIVE COMPOUND
    Publication number: 20130274307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods comprising applying to a useful plant, the locus thereof or propagation material thereof a combination of abscisic acid and a fungicidally active compound, which fungicidally active compound is a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor, in particular for increasing the potency of a fungicidally active compound. The invention also relates to compositions comprising abscisic acid and the fungicidally active compounds as well as seeds comprising the combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Elizabeth Pearson, Jose Luis Calvo, Robin Wesley, Jeremy R. Godwin, Ryan Jon Langs Ramsey, Timothy Robert Hawkes
  • Herbicidal compounds
    Patent number: 8557840
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth which comprises applying to the plants or to the locus thereof a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I): wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, R3, R4 and R5 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 intermediates used in the preparation of compounds of formula (I), to herbicidal compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and to certain novel pyridopyridines, pyridodiazines and pyridotriazines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Robert Cordingley, Michael Drysdale Turnbull, Nigel James Willetts, Patrick Jelf Crowley
  • Preparation of azoxystrobin
    Patent number: 8552185
    Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to a process for preparing a compound of formula (I): using, as a catalyst 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Gillian Beveridge, Ewan Campbell Boyd, Jack Hugh Vass, Alan John Whitton
  • PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF AMIDES
    Publication number: 20130253225
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicants: SYNGENTA LIMITED, SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, LLC
    Inventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Josef Ehrenfreund, Camilla Corsi, Fanny Giordano, Martin Zeller, Gottfried Seifert, Shailesh Shah, Neil George, Ian Jones, Paul Bonnett
  • NOVEL HERBICIDE
    Publication number: 20130252811
    Abstract: Herbicidal composition comprising a pyrandione herbicide and a co-herbicide The present invention relates to a herbicidal composition comprising as active ingredient a mixture of a) a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I) wherein: R1 is methyl, ethyl, n-propyl, halogen, difluoromethoxy, trifluoromethoxy or trifluoromethyl, R2 is phenyl or phenyl substituted by C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 haloalkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy, C1-C4 haloalkoxy or halogen, R4, R5, R6 and R7, independently of each other, are hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl, Y is O, and G is hydrogen, an alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, sulfonium, or ammonium, or G is a latentiating group which is C(O)—Ra or C(0)-O—Rb; and b) a co-herbicide selected from the group consisting of fenoxasulfone, ipfencarbazone, propyrisulfuron, and N-[2-[(4,6-dimethoxy-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)carbonyl]-6-fluorophenyl]-1,1-difluoro-N-methylmethanesulfonamide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 26, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Jane Elisabeth Corbin, Christopher John Mathews, Glynn Mitchell, Claudio Screpanti
  • Herbicides
    Patent number: 8541594
    Abstract: Bicyclic dione compounds, and derivatives thereof, which are suitable for use as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Stephane André Marie Jeanmart, Christopher John Mathews, John Benjamin Taylor, Steve Smith
  • Cyclopentadione derived herbicides
    Patent number: 8530388
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, are suitable for use as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: William Guy Whittingham, Christopher John Mathews, Jeffrey Steven Wailes, Stephane André Marie Jeansmart, Louisa Robinson
  • Herbicides
    Patent number: 8530667
    Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, are suitable for use as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Syngenta Limited
    Inventors: Stephane André Marie Jeanmart, John Benjamin Taylor, Melloney Tyte, Christopher John Mathews, Stephen Christopher Smith
  • PLANT GROWTH REGULATION
    Publication number: 20130225410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the plant growth regulation of and/or enhancing crop plants, by applying to the plants a mixture of a plant growth regulator, and acibenzolar-S-methyl, and to a composition comprising the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: August 29, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Ulrich Johannes Haas, Tyler L. Harp
  • AGROCHEMICAL CONCENTRATES COMPRISING ALKOXYLATED ADJUVANTS
    Publication number: 20130217746
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of reducing the viscosity of an aqueous agrochemical concentrate comprising a) an adjuvant selected from an alkoxylated aliphatic acid, an alkoxylated aliphatic alcohol, an alkoxylated aliphatic amide and an alkoxylated aliphatic amine, wherein the concentration of adjuvant in the aqueous agrochemical concentrate is at least 50 g/l; the method comprising including b) a compound selected from: i. an aryl sulphonate; ii. an aliphatic mono alcohol; iii. an aliphatic polyol comprising at least four contiguous carbon atoms; and iv. anaryl alcohol; in the aqueous agrochemical concentrate; wherein the aqueous agrochemical concentrate comprises an agrochemical active ingredient. The invention also relates to the agrochemical con centrates and methods of using the agrochemical concentrates for controlling or preventing infestation of plants by phytopathogenic microorganisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITED
    Inventors: Julia Lynne Ramsay, John Hone, Jose Luis Calvo, Niall Rae Thomson, Patrick Joseph Mulqueen, Alexander Bassett-Cross, Steven Fitzjohn, Antony Harris