Patents Assigned to Syngenta Limited
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Publication number: 20130203832Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2008Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicants: SYNGENTA LIMITED, SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC.Inventors: Paul Edward Bonnett, Neil George, Ian Kevin Jones, Shailesh Shah
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Patent number: 8501993Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of intermediates useful in the preparation of fungicidally active phenylpropargylether derivatives. The process involves coupling of carboxylic acid with an amine in (a) the absence of a catalyst; (b) the presence of a boronic acid catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Martin Charles Bowden, David Anthony Jackson, Alexandre Christian Saint-Dizier, David Drouard
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Publication number: 20130167496Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for obtaining substantially pure hybrid cereal seed and a machine for use thereof. In particular the invention describes a method for separating hybrid barley seed from a mixed population of inbred barley seed and hybrid barley seed on the basis of a difference which is detectable via the use of near infrared light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicants: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG, SYNGENTA LIMITEDInventors: John Charles Battleaxe Bensley-Bromilow, Robert Fitzpatrick Bruns, Barry Andrew Martin, Karsten Neuffer
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Patent number: 8470832Abstract: The present invention relates to co-crystals of cyprodinil or pyrimethanil and a co-crystal forming compound which has at least one organic acid functional group. In particular, the present invention relates to co-crystals of cyprodinil and benzoic acid, succinic acid, fumaric acid, maleic acid, oxalic acid, pyrazine carboxylic acid, glycolic acid, levulinic acid, (2-methylphenoxy)acetic acid, hexanedioic acid, 4-(methylamino) benzoic acid, trimethyl acetic acid, pyruvic acid or 4-hydroxy-4?-biphenyl carboxylic acid.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Neil George, James Forrest, Pauline Theresa Gavan, Rebecca Claire Burton, Lee Gregory
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Patent number: 8461083Abstract: The present invention relates to novel herbicidal [1,8]-naphthyridines of Formula (Ia) or (Ib), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compound wherein R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, n, m, X and Q are as defined herein. The invention further relates to processes and intermediates for the preparation of the [1,8]-naphthyridines, to compositions which comprise the herbicidal compounds, and to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2009Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Glynn Mitchell, David Phillip Bacon, Ian Henry Aspinall, Emma Briggs, Alaric James Avery, James Alan Morris, Claire Janet Russell, Roger Salmon
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Publication number: 20130137574Abstract: 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 R1, R2, 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.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITEDInventor: Syngenta Limited
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Publication number: 20130137573Abstract: The resent invention relates to a method of controlling weeds in crops of rice, which comprises applying compound A-13, whose structure is, to the plants or to the locus thereof; a method of controlling Echinochloa weeds and/or Leptochloa weeds in crops of useful plants, which comprises applying compound A-13 to the plants or to the locus thereof; and a herbicidal composition containing compound A-13.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2010Publication date: May 30, 2013Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITEDInventors: Richard Chi Shing Chung, Jane Elisabeth Corbin, Christopher John Mathews, Glynn Mitchell, Catherine Julia Piper, Claudio Screpanti, James Nicholas Scutt
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Patent number: 8450243Abstract: The present invention relates to novel herbicidal oxopyridine and thionopyridine derivatives of Formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compound wherein R1, R5, R6, R7, X1, X2 and Q are as defined herein. The invention further relates to processes and intermediates for the preparation of the oxopyridine derivatives, to compositions which comprise the herbicidal compounds, and to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Roger Salmon, Glynn Mitchell, James Alan Morris
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Publication number: 20130114642Abstract: A temperature recorder comprises a sensing cell which comprises a reactant mixture. The reactant mixture comprises a liquid crystalline material, a reactive monomer, and an initiator configured to initiate cross-linking of the reactive monomer and thereby form a sensing material which provides a record of the temperature of the sensing cell when cross-linking occurs. The sensing material comprises a cross-linked network dispersed within the liquid crystalline material, the cross-linked network being formed from the reactive monomer. The sensing cell additionally comprises first and second electrically conductive electrodes having a spaced relationship there between and being connectable to an electric property measuring device arranged to measure an electric property of the sensing material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2011Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: SYNGENTA LIMITEDInventors: Helen Gleeson, Ingo Dierking, Paul Brimicombe, Sarabjot Kaur, Bruce Donald Grieve, Neville Christopher Paul Woodyatt, Jaroslaw Muriusz Wasikiewicz, Stephen George Yeates, Michael Lewis Turner
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Patent number: 8436037Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Hans Tobler, Harald Walter, Josef Ehrenfreund, Camilla Corsi, Fanny Giordano, Martin Zeller, Gottfried Seifert, Shailesh Shah, Neil George, Ian Jones, Paul Bonnett
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Patent number: 8420859Abstract: This invention relates to the use of lactamide compounds of formula (I): CH3CH(OH)C(?O)NR1R2, where R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen; or C1-6 alkyl, C2-6 alkenyl or C3-6 cycloalkyl, each of which is optionally substituted by up to three substituents independently selected from phenyl, hydroxy, C1-5 alkoxy, morpholinyl and NR3R4 where R3 and R4 are each independently C1-3 alkyl; or phenyl optionally substituted by up to three substituents independently selected from C1-3 alkyl; or R1 and R2 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a morpholinyl, pyrrolidinyl, piperidinyl or azepanyl ring, each of which is optionally substituted by up to three substituents independently selected from C1-3 alkyl, in formulations to reduce the toxicity associated with other formulation components; to the use of certain lactamide compounds as solvents, especially in formulations, particularly in agrochemical formulations and in environmentally friendly formulations; to novel lactamide compounds; andType: GrantFiled: March 21, 2007Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Gordon Bell, Ian David Tovey
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Patent number: 8404618Abstract: Herbicidal composition comprising a compound of the formula (I) wherein the substituents have the meanings given in claim 1, and a safener.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Andrew Plant, Willy Thaddaeus Rüegg, Jean Wenger, Ulrich Johannes Haas, Anja Greiner
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Publication number: 20130065757Abstract: The present invention relates to certain substituted picolinic acid derivatives, as well as N-oxides and agriculturally acceptable salts thereof, and their use in controlling plant growth, particularly undesirable plant growth, in crops of useful plants. The invention extends to herbicidal compositions comprising such compounds, N-oxides and/or salts as well as mixtures of the same with one or more further active ingredients and/or a safener.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: Syngenta LimitedInventors: William Guy Whittingham, Shuji Hachisu, Mary Bernadette Aspinall, Matthew Brian Hotson
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Publication number: 20130053242Abstract: The present invention provides a herbicidal composition comprising: (i) a compound of Formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and R7 are as defined herein; and (ii) a safener of Formula (II) or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds, wherein Ra, Rb and Rc are as defined herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2010Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicants: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC, SYNGENTA LIMITEDInventors: Albrecht Michael Michel, Gavin John Hall, Ian Zlexei Zelaya
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Publication number: 20130053385Abstract: The use of a compound of formula I wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, or compositions containing them in controlling insects, acarines, nematodes or molluscs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicants: SYNGENTA LIMITED, SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLCInventors: Stephane Andre Marie Jeanmart, Russell Viner, John Benjamin Taylor, William Guy Whittingham, Jeffrey Steven Wailes, Sarah Margaret Targett, Christopher John Mathews, Michel Muehlebach
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Patent number: 8350025Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to a process for preparing a compound of formula (I): using a quinuclidine-based catalyst or an optionally 3-substituted N-methyl pryrrolidine-based catalyst.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Gillan Beveridge, Ewan Campbell Boyd, Jack Hugh Vass, Alan John Whitton
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Patent number: 8338598Abstract: 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 R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in claim 1; or a salt or TV-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.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Matthew Robert Cordingley, Michael Drysdale Turnbull, Neil Brian Carter, Patrick Jelf Crowley
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Patent number: 8318789Abstract: The present invention relates to co-crystals of propiconazole and a co-crystal forming compound.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Neil George, James Forrest, Paul Edward Bonnett, Pauline Theresa Gavin
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Patent number: 8309739Abstract: The use of a compound of formula I wherein X is (i), (ii) or (iii) Y is O, S(O)m, NR3, CR5R6, CR5R6—CR7R8, O—CR7R8, S(O)m—CR7R8, NR3—CR7R8, CR5R6—O, CR5R6—S(O)m, CR5R6—NR3, SO2—NR3, NR3—SO2, NR3—O or O—NR3; m is 0, 1, or 2; the ring (T) is a 5- or 6-membered aromatic or heteroaromatic ring; R1 to R10 are specified organic groups and n and is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; or salts or N-oxides thereof or compositions containing them in controlling insects, acarines, nematodes or molluscs. Novel compounds are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Syngenta LimitedInventors: Anthony Cornelius O'Sullivan, Juergen Harry Schaetzer, Christoph Luethy, Allison Clare Elliott, Christopher John Mathews
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Patent number: 8258966Abstract: A device and related method for monitoring, detecting and/or controlling pests such as rodents and insects, including termites, are disclosed which comprises: (a) encouraging a first characteristic behavior by the pests that is indicative of the presence of one or more of the pests; (b) discouraging a second characteristic behavior by the pests that at least partially interferes with detection of the first characteristic behavior; and (c) observing, detecting or sensing an occurrence of the first characteristic behavior by one or more of the pests. In one embodiment, the device comprises at least one photonic device; a light conductive assembly in optical association with the at least one photonic device, the assembly comprising first and second spaced apart components having first and second opposed light transmitting surfaces forming between them a spatial region adapted to contain a pest bait member comprised of one or more materials susceptible to consumption or displacement by the pests.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignees: Syngenta Limited, Syngenta Crop Protection LLCInventors: Paul Wright, Mark Hoppé, Bruce Grieve, Reyad Sawafta