Patents by Inventor Peter Maienfisch

Peter Maienfisch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120270885
    Abstract: The use of a compound of formula I Y is a single bond, C?O, C?S or S(O)m where m is 0, 1 or 2; the ring is a 6 membered aromatic ring or is a 5 or 6 membered heteroaromatic ring; Z and Z? are provided that both are not N; R1, R2, R3, R3a, R4, R8 and Ra are specified organic groups and n and p are independently 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: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Peter Maienfisch, Louis-Pierre Molleyres, Jérôme Cassayre, Fredrik Cederbaum, Camilla Corsi, Thomas Pitterna
  • Patent number: 8263566
    Abstract: What is described are a compound of the formula wherein n is 0 or 1; A-B is —CH?CH— or —CH2—CH2—; R1 is C1-C12-alkyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl or C2-C12-alkenyl; R2 is for example C1-C12-alkyl, C2-C12-alkenyl or C2-C12-alkinyl; which are optionally substituted with one to five substituents selected from the group consisting of OH, halogen, CN, —N3, —NO2, C3-C8-Cycloalkyl, norbornylenyl-, C3-C8-Cycloalkenyl; C3-C8-halocycloalkyl, C1-C12-alkoxy, C1-C6-alkoxy-C1-C6-alkoxy, C3-C8-cycloalkoxy, C1-C12-haloalkoxy, C1-C12-alkylthio, C3-C8-cycloalkylthio, C1-C12-haloalkylthio, C1-C12-alkylsulfinyl, C3-C8-cycloalkylsulfinyl, C1-C12-haloalkylsulfinyl, C3-C8-halocycloalkylsulfinyl, C1-C12-alkylsulfonyl, C3-C8-cycloalkylsulfonyl, C1-C12-haloalkylsulfonyl, C3-C8-halocycloalkylsulfonyl, —NR4R6, —X—C(?Y)—R4, —X—C(?Y)—Z—R4, —P(?O)(OC1-C6-alkyl)2, aryl, heterocyclyl, aryloxy, arylthio and heterocyclyloxy; R3 is for example H, C1-C12-alkyl or C1-C12-alkyl which is optionally substituted and, where applicable, to E/Z isomers, mixtu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Merial Limited
    Inventors: Peter Maienfisch, Fiona Murphy Kessabi, Jerome Cassayre, Laura Quaranta, Thomas Pitterna, Ottmar Franz Hueter, Pierre Jung
  • Patent number: 8252936
    Abstract: Novel heteroaromatic compounds of formula (I): wherein A1, A2, A3, R1, R2, G1, G2, Q1 and Q2 are as defined in claim 1; or salts or N-oxides thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes for preparing compounds of formula (I), to insecticidal, acaricidal, molluscicidal and nematicidal compositions comprising them and to methods of using them to combat and control insect, acarine, mollusc and nematode pests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Pierre Jung, Patricia Durieux, William Lutz, Peter Maienfisch, Thomas Pitterna, Peter Renold, Werner Zambach
  • Patent number: 8247594
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I), wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, R1, R2, R3, G1, G2, G3 and Q are as defined in claim 1; or a salt or N-oxide thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes and intermediates for preparing compounds of formula (I), to insecticidal, acaricidal, molluscicidal and nematicidal compositions comprising them and to methods of using them to combat and control insect, acarine, mollusc and nematode pests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Pierre Joseph Marcel Jung, Christopher Richard Ayles Godfrey, William Lutz, Peter Maienfisch, André Denis Stoller, Werner Zambach
  • Patent number: 8236828
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, G1, G2, R1, R2, R3, R4, Q1, Y1, Y2, Y3 and Y4 are as defined in claim 1; or a salt or TV-oxide thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes and intermediates 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: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Pierre Joseph Marcel Jung, Peter Renold, Christopher Richard Ayles Godfrey, William Lutz, Peter Maienfisch, Werner Zambach
  • Patent number: 8193362
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I): wherein R1 is pyrid-4-yl optionally substituted by one to four substituents independently selected from halogen, C1-3 alkyl or C1-3 haloalkyl; R2 is hydrogen, halogen, C1-4 haloalkyl or C1-4 haloalkoxy; R3 is trifluoromethyl, difluoromethyl or difluoromethoxy and R4 is hydrogen, fluoro or chloro, or R3 is fluoro, chloro or bromo and R4 is fluoro, chloro or trifluoromethyl; and R5 is hydrogen or halogen; or salts or N-oxides thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to intermediates used to prepare compounds of formula (I), to methods of using them to combat and control insect, acarine, mollusc and nematode pests and to insecticidal, acaricidal, molluscicidal and nematicidal compositions comprising them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Jerome Yves Cassayre, Camilla Corsi, Thomas Pitterna, Peter Maienfisch
  • Publication number: 20120122975
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bis-amide derivatives of formula (I), to processes and intermediates for preparing them, to methods of using them to control insect, acarine, nematode and mollusc pests, and to insecticidal, acaricidal, nematicidal and molluscicidal compositions comprising them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Pierre Joseph Marcel Jung, Christopher Richard Ayles Godfrey, Ottmar Franz Hueter, Peter Maienfisch
  • Publication number: 20120115884
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) wherein A, p, R1, R3, R4, R5, and R8 are as defined in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates to intermediates used to prepare compounds of formula (I), to methods of using them to combat and control insect, acarine, nematode and mollusc pests and to insecticidal, acaricidal, nematicidal and molluscicidal compositions comprising them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Jerome Yves Cassayre, Thomas Pitterna, Camilla Corsi, Peter Maienfisch
  • Patent number: 8129534
    Abstract: The use of a compound of formula (I), Y is a single bond, C?O, C?S or S(O)m where m is 0, 1 or 2; the ring (II) is a 6 membered aromatic ring or is a 5 or 6 membered heteroaromatic ring; Z and Z? are ?C— or —N— provided that both are not N; R1, R2 R3, R3a, R4, R8 and Ra are specified organic groups and n and p are independently 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: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Maienfisch, Louis-Pierre Molleyres, Jérôme Cassayre, Fredrik Cederbaum, Camilla Corsi, Thomas Pitterna
  • Patent number: 8110684
    Abstract: A method of combating and controlling insects, acarines, nematodes or molluscs which comprises applying to a pest, to a locus of a pest, or to a plant susceptible to attack by a pest an insecticidally, acaricidally, nematicidally or molluscicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I) wherein Y is a single bond, C?O, C?S or S(O)m where m is 0, 1 or 2; and R1, R3, R2 and R8 are defined organic, groups, p is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 or salts or N-oxides thereof; novel compounds and composition's containing them are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Pitterna, Jerome Cassayre, Louis-Pierre Molleyres, Peter Maienfisch
  • Publication number: 20120022053
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula in which A is an unsubstituted or mono- to tetrasubstituted, aromatic or non-aromatic, monocyclic or bicyclic heterocyclic radical, where one to two of the substituents of A can be selected from the group consisting of halo-C1-C3alkyl, cyclopropyl, halocyclopropyl, C2-C3alkenyl, C2-C3alkynyl, halo-C2-C3alkenyl, halo-C2-C3alkynyl, halo-C1-C3alkoxy, C1-C3alkylthio, halo-C1-C3alkylthio, allyloxy, propargyloxy, allylthio, propargylthio, haloallyloxy, haloallylthio, cyano and nitro, and one to four of the substituents of A can be selected from the group consisting of C1-C3alkyl, C1-C3alkoxy and halogen; R is hydrogen, C1-C6alkyl, phenyl-C1-C4alkyl, C3-C6cycloalkyl, C2-C6alkenyl or C2-C6alkynyl; and X is N—NO2 or N—CN, and, if appropriate, tautomers thereof, in each case in free form or in salt form, can be used as agrochemical active ingredients and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Maienfisch, Laurenz Gsell
  • Publication number: 20120010220
    Abstract: Insecticidal, acaricidal, nematicidal or molluscicidal compounds of formula (I) wherein Y is a single bond, C?O, C?S or S(O)q where q is 0, 1 or 2; and R1, R2, R3, R4, R8, R9 are R10 are as defined in the claims or salts or N-oxides thereof, processes for preparing them and compositions containing them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: David John Hughes, Paul Anthony Worthington, Charles Adam Russell, Eric Daniel Clarke, James Edward Peace, Mark Richard Ashton, Thomas Stephen Coulter, Richard Spurring Roberts, Louis-Pierre Molleyres, Fredrik Cederbaum, Jerome Cassayre, Peter Maienfisch
  • Publication number: 20120004105
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions containing as active ingredients spiroheterocyclic pyrrolidine dione compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Werner Zambach, Ottmar Franz Hueter, Jean Wenger, Marcela Goeghova, Thomas Pitterna, Peter Maienfisch, Stephane André Maríe Jeanmart, Michel Muehlebach
  • Publication number: 20110301031
    Abstract: A compound of the formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, are useful as a pesticides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Michel Muehlebach, Thomas Pitterna, Jérôme Yves Cassayre, Andrew Edmunds, Camilla Corsi, Myriem El Qacemi, Roger Graham Hall, André Jeanguenat, André Stoller, Christopher Richard Ayles Godfrey, Jürgen Harry Schaetzer, Olivier Loiseleur, Peter Maienfisch, Neil Brian Carter
  • Publication number: 20110230429
    Abstract: What is described are a compound of the formula wherein n is 0 or 1; A-B is —CH?CH— or —CH2—CH2—; R1 is C1-C12-alkyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl or C2-C12-alkenyl; R2 is for example C1-C12-alkyl, C2-C12-alkenyl or C2-C12-alkinyl; which are optionally substituted with one to five substituents selected from the group consisting of OH, halogen, CN, —N3, —NO2, C3-C8-Cycloalkyl, norbornylenyl-, C3-C8-Cycloalkenyl; C3-C8-halocycloalkyl, C1-C12-alkoxy, C1-C6-alkoxy-C1-C6-alkoxy, C3-C8-cycloalkoxy, C1-C12-haloalkoxy, C1-C12-alkylthio, C3-C8-cycloalkylthio, C1-C12-haloalkylthio, C1-C12-alkylsulfinyl, C3-C8-cycloalkylsulfinyl, C1-C12-haloalkylsulfinyl, C3-C8-halocycloalkylsulfinyl, C1-C12-alkylsulfonyl, C3-C8-cycloalkylsulfonyl, C1-C12-haloalkylsulfonyl, C3-C8-halocycloalkylsulfonyl, —NR4R6, —X—C(?Y)—R4, —X—C(?Y)—Z—R4, —P(?O)(OC1-C6-alkyl)2, aryl, heterocyclyl, aryloxy, arylthio and heterocyclyloxy; R3 is for example H, C1-C12-alkyl or C1-C12-alkyl which is optionally substituted and, where applicable, to E/Z isomers, mixtu
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Maienfisch, Fiona Murphy Kessabi, Jérôme Cassayre, Laura Quaranta, Thomas Pitterna, Ottmar Franz Hueter, Pierre Jung
  • Publication number: 20110224079
    Abstract: Novel compounds of the formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1; compositions containing them and their use as insecticides, acaricides, nematicides or molluscicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Michel Muehlebach, Thomas Pitterna, Andre Jeanguenat, Myriem El Qacemi, Roger Graham Hall, Andrew Edmunds, Camilla Corsi, Andre Stoller, Christopher Richard Godfrey, Jurgen Harry Schaetzer, Olivier Loiseleur, Peter Maienfisch, Jerome Yves Cassayre
  • Patent number: 8017589
    Abstract: What is described are a compound of the formula wherein n is 0 or 1; A-B is —CH?CH— or —CH2—CH2—; R1 is C1-C12-alkyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl or C2-C12-alkenyl; R2 is for example C1-C12-alkyl, C2-C12-alkenyl or C2-C12-alkinyl; which are optionally substituted with one to five substituents selected from the group consisting of OH, halogen, CN, —N3, —NO2, C3-C8-Cycloalkyl, norbornylenyl-, C3-C8-Cycloalkenyl; C3-C8-halocycloalkyl, C1-C12-alkoxy, C1-C6-alkoxy-C1-C6-alkoxy, C3-C8-cycloalkoxy, C1-C12-haloalkoxy, C1-C12-alkylthio, C3-C8-cycloalkylthio, C1-C12-haloalkylthio, C1-C12-alkylsulfinyl, C3-C8-cycloalkylsulfinyl, C1-C12-haloalkylsulfinyl, C3-C8-halocycloalkylsulfinyl, C1-C12-alkylsulfonyl, C3-C8-cycloalkylsulfonyl, C1-C12-haloalkylsulfonyl, C3-C8-halocycloalkylsulfonyl, —NR4R6, —X—C(?Y)—R4, —X—C(?Y)—Z—R4, —P(?O)(OC1-C6-alkyl)2, aryl, heterocyclyl, aryloxy, arylthio and heterocyclyloxy; R3 is for example H, C1-C12-alkyl or C1-C12-alkyl which is optionally substituted and, where applicable, to E/Z isomers, mixtu
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection LLC
    Inventors: Peter Maienfisch, Fiona Murphy Kessabi, Jerome Cassayre, Laura Quaranta, Thomas Pitterna, Ottmar Franz Hueter, Pierre Jung
  • Publication number: 20110218101
    Abstract: A compound of the formula I or where W, X and Y are for example each CH; R1 is H; R2 is halogen; and R6 is, for formula I, for example, OH, CN, C3-C8-cycloalkyl, C3-C8-cycloalkyl-C1-C6-alkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C2-C6-haloalkenyl, C2-C6-alkenyloxy, C2-C6-alkynyl, C2-C6-haloalkynyl, C2-C6-alkynyloxy, optionally substituted C1 to C3-alkyl, or optionally substituted C1-C6-alkoxy, or R6 is, for formula II, for example, CN, C3-C8-cycloalkyl, or optionally substituted C3-C6-alkyl; and/or salts thereof; and their use as as pesticidal agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Ottmar Franz Hueter, Peter Renold, Werner Zambach, Thomas Pitterna, Peter Maienfisch
  • Publication number: 20110190232
    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: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION LLC
    Inventors: Peter Maienfisch, Max Angst, Ottmar Franz Huetter, Jorges Cisneros, Paulo Aramaki, Alfred Rindlisbacher
  • Patent number: 7960401
    Abstract: The use of a compound of formula I Y is a single bond, C?O, C?S or S(O)m m where m is 0, 1 or 2; the ring represented by T is a 5 or 6 membered heteroaromatic and R1, R2, R3, R8 and Ra are specified organic groups and p is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; q is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; p+q is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; or salts or N-oxides thereof or compositions containing them in controlling insects, acarines, nematodes or molluscs; novel compounds are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.
    Inventors: Jérôme Cassayre, Louis-Pierre Molleyres, Peter Maienfisch, Fredrik Cederbaum