Abstract: The invention pertains to processes to produce dry biomass of pyripyropene producer organisms, processes to obtain pyripyropenes from such dry biomass, as well as to processes to produce compounds of Formula III and/or Formula IV and/or Formula V from the pyripyropenes obtained from the dry biomass. The invention does further pertain to the dry biomass itself, as well as processes using said dry biomass to obtain pyripyropenes for the production of compounds of Formula III and/or Formula IV and/or Formula V, including processes using said dry biomass to obtain pyripyropenes or compounds of Formula III and/or Formula IV and/or Formula V in order to produce pest control compositions, in particular insecticides, comprising such compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an aqueous suspension concentrate formulation and novel suspension concentrate formulations of the compound of formula I. The method comprises: a) providing an aqueous slurry of coarse particles of the compound of the formula I, where the compound of the formula I is at least partially present in its crystalline form B, which, in an X-ray powder diffractogram at 25° C. and Cu-K? radiation, shows at least three, preferably at least four, in particular at least 5 or at least 7 or at least 9 or all of the following reflexes, given as 2? values: 8.0±0.2°, 9.5±0.2°, 10.7±0.2°, 11.0±0.2°, 11.2±0.2°, 11.7±0.2°, 14.2±0.2°, 15.6±0.2°, 16.5±0.2°, 17.7±0.2°, 21.5±0.2°; b) comminuting the coarse particles in the slurry of the compound of formula I, which is at least partially present in its form B, in the presence of the at least one surfactant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing the pyripyropene compound of the formula (I) which method comprises the following steps: i) subjecting a pyripyropene compound of formula Pyripyropene A to an alkaline hydrolysis to yield a 1,7,11 -trideacetylpyripyropene A, ii) reacting 1,7,11-trideacetylpyripyropene A obtained in step i) with cyclopropane carbonyl chloride to yield a raw product containing the pyripyropene compound of formula (I); iii) subjecting the raw product of step ii) to crystallization to yield a crystalline pyripyropene compound of formula (I) and a mother liquor; and iv) recycling the mother liquor or a pyripyropene compound containing fraction thereof to the alkaline hydrolysis of step i).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing substituted isatoic acid anhydride compounds of the formula (I) in which R1 is Cl, Br, I, or CN; and R2 is CH3, Cl, Br; using anthranilic acid derivative compounds of formula (III) and/or carbamate compounds of formula (II) wherein R1 and R2 are as defined above; RAr is CH3, Cl, NO2 and n is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5; The present invention relates also to the compounds of formula (II) and to processes comprising further preceding and/or subsequent reaction steps, leading to anthranilamide pesticides or to precursors for them.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing pyridylpyrazole compounds of the formula (I) starting from pyridylhydrazine of formula (II) The present invention relates also to processes comprising further preceding and/or subsequent reaction steps, leading to anthranilamide pesticides or to precursors for them.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing N-substituted 1H-pyrazole-5-carboxylic acid compounds of the formula I-A and derivatives thereof, in particular the corresponding carbonylchloride compounds (acid chlorides). It also relates to the use of these acid chlorides for preparing anthranilamide derivatives that are useful pesticides.

Abstract: The invention pertains to processes to produce dry biomass of pyripyropene producer organisms, processes to obtain pyripyropenes from such dry biomass, as well as to processes to produce compounds of Formula III and/or Formula IV and/or Formula V from the pyripyropenes obtained from the dry biomass. The invention does further pertain to the dry biomass itself, as well as processes using said dry biomass to obtain pyripyropenes for the production of compounds of Formula III and/or Formula IV and/or Formula V, including processes using said dry biomass to obtain pyripyropenes or compounds of Formula III and/or Formula IV and/or Formula V in order to produce pest control compositions, in particular insecticides, comprising such compounds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing a compound of the formulae (Ia) or (Ib), or a mixture thereof, wherein R1 and R2 independently of one another are hydrogen, C1-C10-alkyl, C1-C10-haloalkyl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl, C3-C10-halocycloalkyl, C2-C10-alkenyl, C2-C10-haloalkenyl or together represent an aliphatic chain, or the like; A? is HSO4? or 1/2 SO42?; the process comprising the reaction of a sulfide of formula SR1R2 with hydroxylamineO-sulfonic acid of formula; wherein the reaction is carried out in an aqueous medium in the presence of a base.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing the pyripyropene compound of the formula (I) which method comprises the following steps: i) subjecting a pyripyropene compound of formula Pyripyropene A to an alkaline hydrolysis to yield a 1,7,11-trideacetylpyripyropene A, ii) reacting 1,7,11-trideacetylpyripyropene A obtained in step i) with cyclopropane carbonyl chloride to yield a raw product containing the pyripyropene compound of formula (I); iii) subjecting the raw product of step ii) to crystallization to yield a crystalline pyripyropene compound of formula (I) and a mother liquor; and iv) recycling the mother liquor or a pyripyropene compound containing fraction thereof to the alkaline hydrolysis of step i).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing acetanilides of the formula (I) by reacting a 2-halo-N-halomethylacetanilide of the formula (II) with an azole of the formula (III) H-A??(III) wherein the substituents R, R1, R2, R3, R4, A, X and X1 in the formulae (I), (II) and (III) have the meanings as indicated in the description.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an aqueous suspension concentrate formulation and novel suspension concentrate formulations of the compound of formula I. The method comprises: a) providing an aqueous slurry of coarse particles of the compound of the formula I, where the compound of the formula I is at least partially present in its crystalline form B, which, in an X-ray powder diffractogram at 25° C. and Cu-K? radiation, shows at least three, preferably at least four, in particular at least 5 or at least 7 or at least 9 or all of the following reflexes, given as 2? values: 8.0±0.2°, 9.5±0.2°, 10.7±0.2°, 11.0±0.2°, 11.2±0.2°, 11.7±0.2°, 14.2±0.2°, 15.6±0.2°, 16.5±0.2°, 17.7±0.2°, 21.5±0.2°; b) comminuting the coarse particles in the slurry of the compound of formula I, which is at least partially present in its form B, in the presence of the at least one surfactant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel process for preparing acetanilides of the formula (I) by reacting a 2-halo-N-halomethylacetanilide of the formula (II) with an azole of the formula (III) H-A??(III) wherein the substituents R, R1, R2, R3, R4, A, X and X1 in the formulae (I), (II) and (III) have the meanings as indicated in the description.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 1,3-substituted pyrazole compounds of the formula I in which X is especially a CX1X2X3 group in which X1, X2 and X3 are each independently especially hydrogen, fluorine or chlorine, R1 is C1-C4-alkyl or cyclopropyl, and R2 is hydrogen, CN or a CO2R2a group in which R2a is especially C1-C6-alkyl, comprising the following steps: i) reacting a compound of the formula II with a hydrazone of the formula III where the variables X and R2 in formula II are each as defined for formula I, Y is oxygen, an NRy1 group or an [NRy2Ry3]+Z? group, R3 is OR3a or an NR3bR3c group, and where the variable R1 in formula III is as defined for formula I, R4 and R5 are each independently hydrogen, C1-C6-alkyl, optionally substituted phenyl, where at least one of the R4 and R5 radicals is different from hydrogen, and where R4 and R5 together with the carbon atom to which they are bonded may also be a 5- to 10-membered saturated carbocycle; ii) treating the reac

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing difluoromethyl-substituted pyrazol-4-ylcarboxylic acids and their esters, 2-(aminomethylidene)-4,4-difluoro-3-oxobutteric esters of the formula (I) in which R1, R2 and R3 independently of one another are C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl or benzyl or NR2R3 is a 5- to 10-membered heterocyclic radical, to a process for preparing compounds of the formula (I) wherein an appropriate 3-aminoacrylic ester is reacted with difluoroacetyl fluoride and to the use of compounds of the formula (I) in the process for preparing difluoromethyl-substituted pyrazol-4-ylcarboxylic acids and their esters.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 2-(aminomethylidene)-4,4-dihalo-3-oxobutyric esters of the formula (I), wherein R1, R2, R3 are C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl or benzyl, and/or R2 together with R3 and the nitrogen atom to which the two radicals are attached are a heterocyclic radical, in which a corresponding 3-aminoacrylic ester is reacted with a halogen-substituted acetyl fluoride in the presence of at least one alkali or alkaline earth metal fluoride; and the further conversion of halogen-substituted 2-(aminomethylidene)-3-oxobutyric esters of the formula (I) to halomethyl-substituted pyrazol-4-ylcarboxylic acids and their esters.

Abstract: A process for preparing arylcarboxamides of the formula (I) where Ar=a mono- to trisubstituted phenyl, pyridyl or pyrazolyl ring, where the substituents are selected from halogen, C1-C4-alkyl and C1-C4-haloalkyl; M=thienyl or phenyl, which may bear a halogen substituent; Q=direct bond, cyclopropylene, fused bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane or bicyclo[2.2.1]heptene ring; R1=hydrogen, halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C4-alkoxy, C1-C4-haloalkoxy, mono- to trisubstituted phenyl, where the substituents are selected from halogen and trifluoromethylthio, or cyclopropyl; by reacting an acid chloride of the formula (II) with an arylamine (III) in a suitable nonaqueous solvent, wherein, in the absence of an auxiliary base, a) the acid chloride (II) is initially charged, b) a pressure of from 0 to 700 mbar is established, c) the arylamine (III) is metered in an approximately stoichiometric amount and d) the product of value is isolated.

Abstract: A process for preparing 1,3-disubstituted pyrazolecarboxylic esters of the formula (I) where X, Y, Z=hydrogen or halogen and R1=C1-C6-alkyl, by metering an enol ether of the formula III where R2 is C1-C6-alkyl at from (?41) to (?80)° C. into an alkyl hydrazine of the formula II H2N—NH-lower alkyl ??(II).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing difluoromethyl-substituted pyrazol-4-ylcarboxylic acids and their esters, 2-(aminomethylidene)-4,4-difluoro-3-oxobutteric esters of the formula (I) in which R1, R2 and R3 independently of one another are C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C3-C10-cycloalkyl or benzyl or NR2R3 is a 5- to 10-membered heterocyclic radical, to a process for preparing compounds of the formula (I) wherein an appropriate 3-aminoacrylic ester is reacted with difluoroacetyl fluoride and to the use of compounds of the formula (I) in the process for preparing difluoromethyl-substituted pyrazol-4-ylcarboxylic acids and their esters.

Abstract: The present invention relates to 1-(azolin-2-yl)amino-1,2-diphenylethane compounds of the formula I and to their salts which are useful for combating animal pests. The invention also relates to a method for controlling animal pests by using these compounds, to seed and to an agricultural and veterinary composition comprising said compounds. wherein A is a radical of formulae A.1 or A.

Abstract: A process for preparing alkyl 2-alkoxymethylene-4,4-difluoro-3-oxobutyrates (VI) where R is methyl or ethyl, from crude reaction mixtures of alkyl 4,4-difluoroacetoacetates (I) by a) reacting ?where M is a sodium or potassium ion, and ?without additional solvent to form an enolate (V) b) releasing the corresponding alkyl 4,4-difluoroacetoacetate (I) from the enolate (V) by means of acid, c) removing the salt formed from cation M and acid anion as a solid and d) converting (I), without isolation from the crude reaction mixture, to the alkyl 2-alkoxymethylene-4,4-difluoro-3-oxobutyrate (VI), and the use of (VI) for preparing 1-methyl-3-difluoromethyl-pyrazol-3-ylcarboxyates VII