Hetero Ring Is Six-membered Including Nitrogen Patents (Class 504/105)
  • Patent number: 11919859
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mixture comprising (a) a compound of Formula I and salts thereof wherein A1, A2, A3, R1, B1, B2 and B3 are defined in the disclosure, and (b) 2-pyridinecarboxylic acid, 4-amino-3-chloro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl)-5-fluoro-, phenylmethyl ester (i.e. florpyrauxifen-benzyl). Also disclosed is a composition comprising the mixture. Also disclosed is a method of applying the mixture to undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of the mixture of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FMC Corporation
    Inventor: Atul Puri
  • Patent number: 11304418
    Abstract: Disclosed are N-(1,3,4-oxadiazole-2-yl)aryl carboxamides of formula (I) or the salts (I) thereof as well as the use thereof as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Arnim Koehn, Hartmut Ahrens, Christian Waldraff, Ralf Braun, Stephen David Lindell, Anu Bheemaiah Machettira, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Hansjoerg Dietrich
  • Patent number: 11197477
    Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous capsule suspension concentrates based on 2-[(2,4 -dichlorophenyl)methyl]-4,4?-dimethyl-3-isoxazolidinone, to the production thereof and to mixtures thereof with suspension concentrates, and to the use thereof as an agrochemical formulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jens Krause, Ralf Hambrock
  • Patent number: 11109592
    Abstract: 4-Amino-3-chloro-6-(4-chloro-2-fluoro-3-methoxyphenyl)pyridine-2-carboxylic acid and agriculturally acceptable esters or salts thereof are used in methods for selective post-emergent control of undesirable vegetation in the presence of sunflowers, sorghum, yellow mustard, spring Juncea canola, spring kale, spring turnip, spring rutabaga, spring Winfred forage brassica, or sugar beet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Corteva Agriscience LLC
    Inventors: Rory Degenhardt, Len Juras, Bill McGregor, Peter Nott, Norbert M. Satchivi, Monte R. Weimer
  • Patent number: 11083194
    Abstract: The present invention provides granular compositions containing soil-applied pesticides. In particular, the present invention provides granular compositions containing insecticides, especially soil-applied insecticides, and more specifically still, certain pyrethroid insecticides, such as tefluthrin. The present invention provides also the use of the granular compositions for controlling insects, and methods of controlling insects by application of the granular compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventor: Kal Edly
  • Patent number: 10899709
    Abstract: Novel alkynyl-substituted 3-phenylpyrrolidine-2,4-diones and use thereof as herbicides The present invention relates to novel effective alkynyl-substituted 3-phenylpyrrolidine-2,4-diones according to the general formula (I) or agrochemically acceptable salts thereof, where X?C1-C4-alkyl, C1-C4-haloalkyl or C3-C6-cycloalkyl; Y?C1-C4-alkyl or C3-C6-cycloalkyl; n=1, 2 or 3; m=1 or 2; R1=C1-C6-alkyl, or C3-C6-cycloalkyl; R2=hydrogen or methyl; R3?C1-C3-alkoxy-C1-C3-alkyl, or a saturated five- or six-membered heterocycle with an oxygen or sulphur atom; G=hydrogen, a cleavable group L or a cation E. The invention also relates to the use of the compounds according to the invention for controlling weeds and weed grasses in crops of useful plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Alfred Angermann, Stefan Lehr, Hendrik Helmke, Reiner Fischer, Guido Bojack, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Elmar Gatzweiler, Hansjörg Dietrich
  • Patent number: 10772323
    Abstract: An emulsifiable concentrate comprising a benzoic acid herbicide in acid form dissolved in an amide solvent and an amide solvent and an amine emulsion stabiliser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NUFARM AUSTRALIA LIMITED
    Inventors: Sumit Sharma, Aristos Panayi, Chad Richard Ord Sayer
  • Patent number: 10674725
    Abstract: Provided is a herbicidal composition comprising a PPO inhibitor and dicamba or its salt, wherein the weight ratio of the PPO inhibitor to dicamba or its salt is less than 1/2,000. The herbicidal composition can effectively control weeds with reduced crop injury.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Yoshinao Sada
  • Patent number: 10604494
    Abstract: Acylated N-(1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)-, N-(1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)-, N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)arylcarboxamides of the formula (I) and the use thereof as herbicides are described. In this formula (I), R, V, X, Y and Z are radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. Q is an oxadiazole, triazole or tetrazole radical. W is CY or N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Arnim Koehn, Ralf Braun, Christian Waldraff, Hartmut Ahrens, Andreas Van Almsick, Stefan Lehr, Stephen David Lindell, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Elmar Gatzweiler
  • Patent number: 10455837
    Abstract: Safener complexes comprising cloquintocet acid, or a salt thereof, and an amine-containing polymer or oligomer as well as compositions comprising these safener complexes are provided. Also provided are methods of controlling undesirable vegetation in a crop, comprising applying to vegetation or an area adjacent to the vegetation or applying to soil or water to prevent the emergence or growth of the undesirable vegetation in a crop, a safened herbicidal composition comprising a herbicide and a safener complex comprising cloquintocet acid, or a salt thereof, and an amine-containing polymer or oligomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Dow ArgoSciences LLC
    Inventors: Min Zhao, Lei Liu, David Ouse, James Gifford
  • Patent number: 10383334
    Abstract: Subject matter of the present invention is an emulsifiable concentrate comprising a water-insoluble pesticide, an amide of the formula (I) as defined herein, and a lactamide of the formula (II) as defined herein. The invention further relates to a process for the preparation of said concentrate; an emulsion obtainable by mixing water, a water-insoluble pesticide, the amide of the formula (I) and the lactamide of the formula (II); and to a method for controlling phytopathogenic fungi and/or undesired vegetation and/or undesired attack by insects or mites and/or for regulating the growth of plants, where the concentrate or the emulsion is allowed to act on the respective pests, their environment or on the crop plants to be protected from the respective pests, on the soil and/or on undesired plants and/or on the crop plants and/or their environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: BASF Agro B.V.
    Inventors: Murat Mertoglu, Stefan Bechtel, Natascha Annawald, Marcus Annawald
  • Patent number: 10104892
    Abstract: Herbicidally and fungicidally active 3-heteroarylisoxazoline-5-carboxamides and 3-heteroarylisoxazoline-5-thioamides of the formula (I) are described. In this formula (I), R represents radicals such as hydrogen, halogen and organic radicals such as substituted alkyl. A is a bond or a divalent unit. Y is a chalcogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AG
    Inventors: Thomas Frenzel, Klaus Bernhard Haaf, Stephen David Lindell, Lothar Willms, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Dirk Schmutzler, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger
  • Patent number: 9980486
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein A1a, A1b, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined herein. The invention further relates to herbicidal compositions which comprise a compound of Formula (I), and to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Glynn Mitchell, Gordon Richard Munns, Matthew Carl Plane, Nicholas Phillip Mulholland
  • Patent number: 9968084
    Abstract: An synergistic herbicidal composition containing penoxsulam plus triclopyr and imazethapyr or imazamox for controlling weeds in crops, especially rice, cereal and grain crops, pastures, rangelands, industrial vegetation management (IVM), aquatics and turf. These compositions provide improved post-emergence herbicidal weed control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Richard K. Mann, Monica Sorribas Amela, Charles Simpson, Andrew T. Ellis, Jonathan D. Siebert, Ralph B. Lassiter, Jr., Larry Walton, Vernon Langston
  • Patent number: 9963431
    Abstract: Compounds (A) can be used for increasing the yield of useful plants or crop plants with respect to their harvested plant organs, wherein the Compound (A) is selected from compounds of the formula (I) and hydrates or salts thereof,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: BAYER CROPSCIENCE AG
    Inventors: Udo Bickers, Stefan Lehr, Georg Bonfig-Picard, Mathias Schmidt, Martin Jeffrey Hills, Juan Pedro Ruiz-Santaella Moreno, Erwin Hacker
  • Patent number: 9930891
    Abstract: A synergistic mixture of penoxsulam and pyroxsulam controls weeds in rice, cereal and grain crops, tree and vine crops, pome, stone and citrus crops, pastures, rangelands, industrial vegetation management (IVM), and turf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventor: Richard K. Mann
  • Patent number: 9790134
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides novel agricultural microbial inoculant compositions for uses in promoting plant growth, plant productivity and/or soil quality. The novel microbial inoculant compositions comprise one or more microbial species, one or more urease inhibitors and/or one or more nitrification inhibitors. The present disclosure also provides fertilizer compositions comprising said microbial inoculant compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Koch Agronomic Services, LLC
    Inventors: Drew R. Bobeck, Cedric J. Pearce
  • Patent number: 9788543
    Abstract: Herbicidal compositions containing (a) an amide herbicide selected from flufenacet, dimethenamid or a stereoisomer thereof, acetochlor, or metolachlor or a stereoisomer thereof, (b) fomesafen or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof, and (c) saflufenacil are disclosed, wherein components (a), (b) and (c) are present in amounts effective to reduce the phytotoxicity of the saflufenacil. Methods of making and using herbicidal compositions containing (a) metolachlor or a stereoisomer thereof, (b) fomesafen or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof, and (c) saflufenacil are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Syngenta Participations AG
    Inventors: Marc Hennen, Donald John Porter
  • Patent number: 9763447
    Abstract: Herbicidal injury caused by 6-amino-2-(substituted phenyl)-5-substituted-4-pyrimidinecarboxylates in wheat and barley is reduced with the use of a safener selected from the group consisting of cloquintocet, fenchlorazole, mefenpyr and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul Richard Schmitzer
  • Patent number: 9750248
    Abstract: A synergistic fungicidal mixture contains a fungicidally effective amount of a compound of Formula I, (3S,6S,7R,8R)-8-benzyl-3-(3-((isobutyryloxy)methoxy)-4-methoxypicolinamido)-6-methyl-4,9-dioxo-1,5-dioxonan-7-yl isobutyrate, and at least one triazole fungicide wherein Formula I is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Dow Agrosciences LLC
    Inventors: David Ouimette, John Todd Mathieson, Chenglin Yao, Olavo Correa da Silva, Greg Kemmit
  • Patent number: 9739767
    Abstract: A method of screening for a plant defense activator, which enhances an immune response of a plant, from at least one candidate substance includes: contacting a plant cell in which a jasmonic acid-dependent defense pathway and a salicylic acid-dependent defense pathway of a plant defense system are capable of working independently from each other, with a candidate substance; contacting the plant cell with a trigger material that induces an immune response; and assaying the plant cell after contacting with the trigger material based on an index representing an immune response, to select a target substance that enhances an immune response of the plant. A method of enhancing an immune response of a plant includes use of a specific compound, and a plant immune response enhancer includes the specific compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kuchitsu, Takamitsu Kurusu
  • Patent number: 9737073
    Abstract: Provided herein are herbicidal compositions containing of (a) fluroxypyr or an agriculturally acceptable ester or salt thereof and (b) an ALS-inhibiting herbicide, wherein the ALS-inhibiting herbicide is diclosulam, cloransulam, chlorimuron, or thifensulfuron, or an agriculturally acceptable ester or salt thereof. The compositions provide synergistic weed control of undesirable vegetation in areas including, but not limited to, soybean, cotton, corn, sorghum, sunflower, sugarcane, sugar beets, alfalfa, cereals (including but not limited to wheat, barley, rice and oats), non-crop, fallow-bed, perennial crop, fruiting crop, or plantation crop areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: James M. Gifford, Richard K. Mann, Ändrea C. McVeigh-Nelson, David G. Ouse, Christopher J. Voglewede
  • Patent number: 9717242
    Abstract: A compound of formula (Ie?): wherein Ar?, R1, R4e and Y are as defined herein and a method of controlling pests using the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: MEIJI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinzo Kagabu, Masaaki Mitomi, Shigeki Kitsuda, Ryo Horikoshi, Masahiro Nomura, Yasumichi Onozaki
  • Patent number: 9644469
    Abstract: A synergistic herbicidal composition containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) VLCFA and fatty acid/lipid synthesis inhibiting herbicides, including but not limited to, acetochlor, alachlor, anilofos, benfuresate, cafenstrole, dimethenamid-P, fentrazamide, indanofan, flufenacet, mefenacet, s-metolachlor, molinate, pethoxamid, pretilachlor, prosulfocarb, pyroxasulfone, thenylchlor and thiobencarb, or a salt or ester thereof, provide synergistic weed control of undesirable vegetation in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) or rights-of-way (ROW).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Carla N. Yerkes, Richard K. Mann, Ikuo Shiraishi, Shingo Yanagiyama, Norbert M. Satchivi
  • Patent number: 9408387
    Abstract: Herbicidal injury caused by 6-amino-2-(substituted phenyl)-5-substituted-4-pyrimidinecarboxylates in wheat and barley is reduced with the use of a safener selected from the group consisting of cloquintocet, fenchlorazole, mefenpyr and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul R. Schmitzer
  • Patent number: 9328068
    Abstract: A compound of formula (Ie?): wherein Ar?, R1, R4e and Y are as defined herein and a method of controlling pests using the compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: MEIJI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinzo Kagabu, Masaaki Mitomi, Shigeki Kitsuda, Ryo Horikoshi, Masahiro Nomura, Yasumichi Onozaki
  • Patent number: 9301525
    Abstract: Provided is a pest control composition containing an iminopyridine derivative represented by the following Formula (I) and at least one of other pest control agents: [in the formula (I), Ar represents a 5- to 6-membered heterocycle which may be substituted, A represents a heterocycle having a 5- to 10-membered unsaturated bond including one or more nitrogen atoms, and has an imino group substituted with an R group at a position adjacent to the nitrogen atom present on the cycle, Y represents hydrogen, halogen and the like, and R represents any one of groups represented by the following Formulae (a) to (e), (y) or (z)].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: MEUI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Horikoshi, Yasumichi Onozaki, Satoshi Nakamura, Masahiro Nomura, Makoto Matsumura, Masaaki Mitomi
  • Patent number: 9204643
    Abstract: Temperature stable aqueous compositions and methods for their preparation and use are described. The compositions can include cloquintocet-mexyl, a surfactant comprising a tallowamine alkoxylate, a cocoamine alkoxylate, or a combination thereof, and water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventor: Derek J. Hopkins
  • Patent number: 9155312
    Abstract: Safeners for herbicides are suitable for increasing the microbicidal activity of fungicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Fischer, Peter Dahmen, Ulrike Wachendorff-Neumann
  • Patent number: 9156784
    Abstract: The invention relates to sulfmimidoyl- and sulfonimidoylbenzoyl derivatives of the general formula (I). In said formula (I), R, R?, X, W and Z represent radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogens. Q represents a cyclohexandionyl-, pyrazolyl-oder isoxazolyl radical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Hartmut Ahrens, Simon Doerner-Rieping, Stefan Lehr, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Dirk Schmutzler
  • Patent number: 9119400
    Abstract: A method of controlling weeds in a soybean or cotton field, which comprises the step of applying one or more 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibitory active compounds and flumioxazin in an effective amount to weeds in a soybean or cotton field, or a place where weeds would grow, said 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase inhibitory active compounds being selected from the group consisting of isoxaflutole, mesotrione, sulcotrione, topramezone, pyrasulfotole, tembotrione and bicyclopyrone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: SUMITOMO CHEMICAL COMPANY, LIMITED
    Inventor: Hajime Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9078442
    Abstract: 3-Phenylisoxazoline-5-carboxamides and 3-phenylisoxazoline-5-thioamides of the formula (I) and their use as herbicides and fungicides are described. In this formula (I), X, X2 to X6, R1 to R4 are radicals such as hydrogen, halogen and organic radicals such as substituted alkyl. A is a bond or a divalent unit. Y is a chalcogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Lothar Willms, Monika H Schmitt, Thomas Frenzel, Klaus Bernhard Haaf, Isolde Häuser-Hahn, Ines Heinemann, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Heinz Kehne, Jan Dittgen, Dieter Feucht, Martin Jeffrey Hills, Philippe Rinolfi
  • Patent number: 9066517
    Abstract: A pest control method for honeybee parasitic pests has been found, which is highly safe to honeybees and demonstrates excellent pest control effects against honeybee parasitic pests by using a honeybee parasitic pest control agent containing at least one of a compound represented by Formula (I) and acid addition salts thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MEIJI SEIKA PHARMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Horikoshi, Masaaki Mitomi
  • Patent number: 9040458
    Abstract: Herbicidal injury caused by 6-trisubstituted phenyl)-4-amino-2-pyridinecarboxylates in wheat and barley is reduced with the use of low rates of cloquintocet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul R. Schmitzer
  • Publication number: 20150141249
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a formulation comprising a nanoparticle including a polymer-associated herbicide, such as fenoxaprop or pyroxsulam with an average diameter of between about 1 nm and about 500 nm; wherein the polymer is a polyelectrolyte and a dispersant or a wetting agent. The disclosure describes various formulations and formulating agents that can be included in the formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: VIVE CORP PROTECTION INC.
    Inventors: Darren J. Anderson, Anjan Kumar Das, Jose Amado Dinglasan, Fugang Li, Danielle Norton
  • Patent number: 9035064
    Abstract: A description is given of N-(1,2,5-oxadiazol-3-yl)pyridinecarboxamides of the general formula (I) as herbicides. R in this formula (I) stands for radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals, and other radicals such as halogen. W stands for a substituted pyridyl radical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: BAYER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY GMBH
    Inventors: Arnim Köhn, Andreas Van Almsick, Ralf Braun, Monika H. Schmitt, Jörg Tiebes, Ines Heinemann, Isolde Häeuser-Hanh, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger
  • Patent number: 9034353
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are mesocapsules that include agriculturally active ingredients. These mesocapsules are comprised of a polyurea shell and include hydrophilic groups on their surfaces and have a volume-average diameter of about 500 nm or less and some of them have a volume-average diameter on the order of about 300 nm or less. These mesocapsules are suited for delivering active ingredients that are not very soluble in water. Methods for making these mesocapsules include interfacial polycondensation reactions carried out in the presence of surfactants and other methods in which all or most of the surfactant is replaced by adding amino acids to the aqueous phase of the interfacial reaction mixture before forming the final emulsion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLC
    Inventors: Robert J. Ehr, Thomas H. Kalantar, Lei Liu, Dale C. Schmidt, Mike P. Tolley, Kerrm Y. Yau, Qiang Zhang, Min Zhao
  • Publication number: 20150126367
    Abstract: An herbicidal composition containing (a) a pyridine or pyrimidine carboxylic acid component and (b) a second cereal or rice herbicide component provides synergistic control of selected weeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2015
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Norbert M. Satchivi, Paul R. Schmitzer, Carla N. Yerkes, Terry R. Wright
  • Publication number: 20150111747
    Abstract: 6-Pyridone-2-carbamoylazoles of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), W, X and Z represent radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. Q represents a 5-membered radical such as oxadiazyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Ralf Braun, Stefan Lehr, Arnim Koehn, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Dirk Schmutzler
  • Publication number: 20150105253
    Abstract: Salts of N-(tetrazol-5-yl)- and N-(triazol-5-yl)arylcarboxamides of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), W, X, Z and R represent radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. A and B each represent nitrogen or carbon. M+ represents a cation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Ralf Braun, Simon Doerner-Rieping, Hartmut Ahrens, Christian Waldraff, Arnim Koehn, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger
  • Publication number: 20150105254
    Abstract: Aqueous based pesticide compositions having a high concentration of a water-soluble salt of a herbicide and a water-insoluble pesticide are provided herein. These compositions are, among other things, transparent, homogeneous, stable upon storage in various thermal environments, and upon dilution in water form a stable emulsion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventor: Mei Li
  • Patent number: 8987169
    Abstract: A stabilized herbicidal composition comprising fenoxaprop ester herbicide in combination with pyrasulfotole. The present disclosure also provides for a method of stabilizing herbicidal compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer CropScience LP
    Inventors: Guillaume Huchet, Tai-Teh Wu, Daphne Miller, Karen L. Eagles
  • Publication number: 20150072859
    Abstract: This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”): and processes related thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Noormohamed M. Niyaz, Negar Garizi, Yu Zhang, Tony K. Trullinger, Ricky Hunter, Ann M. Buysse, Asako Kubota, Paul R. LePlae, Jr., Daniel Knueppel, Christian T. Lowe, Dan Pernich, David A. Demeter, Timothy C. Johnson
  • Patent number: 8962528
    Abstract: This invention concerns the use of penoxsulam as an herbicide in alfalfa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Dow AgroSciences, LLC.
    Inventors: Monica Sorribas Amela, Richard K. Mann
  • Patent number: 8962523
    Abstract: A composition comprising (A) one or more compounds of the formula (I) or salts thereof, in which the individual indices have the meaning defined in the description and (B) one or more safeners is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Bayer Cropscience AG
    Inventors: Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Erwin Hacker, Hartmut Ahrens, Hansjörg Dietrich, Frank Ziemer
  • Publication number: 20150045217
    Abstract: Thiazolopyridinones of the general formula (I) are described as herbicides. In this formula (I), R1, R2, R3 and R4 represent radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl and other radicals such as halogen, nitro and cyano.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Christian Waldraff, Stefan Lehr, Alfred Angermann, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Jan Dittgen, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Angela Becker
  • Publication number: 20150031537
    Abstract: There are described 4-nitro-substituted N-(tetrazol-5-yl)-, N-(triazol-5-yl)- and N-(1,3,4-oxadiazol-2-yl)arylcarboxamides of the general formula (I) as herbicides. In this formula (I), X, Y and W are radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. A is N and CY.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Simon Dörner-Rieping, Ralf Braun, Arnin Köhn, Hartmut Ahrens, Stefan Lehr, Hansjörg Dietrich, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Dirk Schmutzler
  • Publication number: 20150031536
    Abstract: The invention relates to sulfmimidoyl- and sulfonimidoylbenzoyl derivatives of the general formula (I). In said formula (I), R, R?, X, W and Z represent radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogens. Q represents a cyclohexandionyl-, pyrazolyl-oder isoxazolyl radical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Hartmut Ahrens, Simon Doerner-Rieping, Stefan Lehr, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger, Dirk Schmutzler
  • Publication number: 20150018210
    Abstract: Sulfinylaminobenzamides of the general formula (I) as herbicides are described. In this formula (I), R, R?, R?, X, W and Z are radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogen. Q is a tetrazolyl, triazolyl or oxadiazolyl radical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Hartmut Ahrens, Ralf Braun, Arnim Koehn, Stefan Lehr, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Dirk Schmutzler, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher Hugh Rosinger
  • Publication number: 20150018209
    Abstract: The invention relates to sulfin- and sulfonimidoylbenzamides of general formula (S) used as herbicides. In said formula (I), R, R?, R?, X, W and Z represent radicals such as hydrogen, organic radicals such as alkyl, and other radicals such as halogens. Q represents a tetrazolyl-, triazolyl or oxadiazolyl radicals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Hartmut Ahrens, Ralf Braun, Simon Doerner-Rieping, Arnim Koehn, Stefan Lehr, Hansjoerg Dietrich, Dirk Schmutzler, Elmar Gatzweiler, Christopher HUGH Rosinger