Abstract: The novel compounds of the formula I are useful selective herbicides for postemergence application in crops of cereals, maize and rice.In formula I, ##STR1## A is an unsubstituted or substituted amino group, Q is a C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkylene bridge, Y is an oxygen or sulfur atom or an unsubstituted or substituted nitrogen atom, and Z is an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl, naphthyl or heterocyclic radical, which phenyl radical, containing the bridge member Y, can additionally carry one to four further substituents.

Abstract: N-(heterocyclicaminocarbonyl)arylsulfonamides in which the aryl radical is substituted in the 2-position by a carboxy radical, ester, thioester, or amide thereof; e.g. N-[(4,6-dimethylpyrimidin-2-yl)aminocarbonyl]-2-methoxycarbonylbenzenesulf onamide or N-[(4,6-dimethoxy-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)aminocarbonyl]-2-methoxycarbonylbenze nesulfonamide; are useful for the regulation of plant growth and as pre-emergence and post-emergence herbicides.

Abstract: Quaternary compounds of the formula[(K.sup..sym..sub.m --X--).sub.n R]m.multidot.n.multidot.An.sup..crclbar.whereinK.sup..sym. denotes a cationic organic radical,X denotes a linking member,R denotes the radical of a heterocyclic reactive group,m denotes the numbers 1 or 2,n denotes the numbers 1 or 2 andAn.sup..crclbar. denotes an anion,can be used for increasing the affinity of anionic dyestuffs for natural or synthetic fibre materials containing nitrogen or hydroxyl groups.

Abstract: 4-Amino- and 2,4-diaminopyrimidines with a quaternized ring nitrogen and an oxygen bearing substituent such as hydroxyalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, or alkanoyl on one of the exo- or endocyclic nitrogens and a C.sub.6-18 alkyl on another, are highly active antimicrobial agents with a relatively low acute mammalian toxicity.

Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions having as active diuretic ingredients certain 4-guanidinopyridines are described. Representative diuretic compounds are 5-amino-6-chloro-4-guanidinopyrimidine and 6-amino-5-nitro-4-guanidinopyrimidine.

Abstract: 4-Amino-2-substituted-5-pyrimidinecarboxamidoximes and carbothioamides are immunomodulatory agents useful in the treatment of immune system diseases and disorders.

Abstract: Aziridine-2-carboxylic acid derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is a carboxyl, nitrile, alkoxycarbonyl or carbamoyl group, andR and R.sup.1 are various organic radicals, or pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof, exhibit marked immunostimulant activity, especially in conjunction with added chemotherapeutic agents such as a penicillin, a cephalosporin, a nitrofuran or chloramphenicol. Those compounds are new where X is a cyano group or an alkoxycarbonyl radical and R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, but R' is not an unsubstituted alkyl radical or an alkyl radical substituted by hydroxyl, alkoxy, dialkylamino, phenyl, 4-chlorophenyl or 4-methoxyphenyl or a vinyl radical substituted by a phenyl or methyl radical, or a cycloalkyl radical, a phenyl a 4-chlorophenyl, a 4-methoxyphenyl, an s-triazinyl or a pyridinyl radical; or where X is a carbamoyl group and R.sub.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 is hydrogen or methyl,either R.sub.2 is hydrogen; C.sub.1-6 alkyl; C.sub.1-4 alkyl monosubstituted by halo or phenyl; C.sub.2-4 alkyl monosubstituted in the 2-, 3- or 4-position by hydroxy or C.sub.1-2 alkoxy; C.sub.5-7 cycloalkyl; C.sub.5-7 cycloalkyl substituted by one to three C.sub.1-4 alkyl groups; phenyl; phenyl substituted by one or two substituents selected from the group consisting of halo, C.sub.1-4 alkyl and C.sub.1-4 alkoxy; or --CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 SO.sub.3 H, andR.sub.3 is hydrogen or C.sub.1-6 alkyl,or R.sub.2 and R.sub.3, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are bound, form a 5- or 6-membered saturated heterocyclic ring,and mixtures thereof, which compounds are in free acid or salt form, useful for dyeing and printing hydroxy group-containing and amido group-containing organic substrates such as natural and synthetic polyamides (e.g., wool, silk and nylon) and natural and regenerated cellulose (e.g., cotton, viscose and spun rayon).

Abstract: N-phenethylacetamide compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 represents a lower alkoxy group, X.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkoxy group and R represents a phenyl group, a pyridyl group, a pyrimidinyl group or a benzoyl group, each of which may have one or more substituents selected from a halogen atom, a carbamoyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a sulfamoyl group, an amino group, a lower alkylamino group, a lower alkylthio group, a hydroxy group and a lower alkoxycarbonyl group; the parmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts and hydrates thereof; as well as the process for preparing such compounds and salts and hydrates thereof; the compounds, their salts and their hydrates having a distinct anti-peptic ulcer activity in human and animals.

Abstract: 6-Substituted-arylpyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidin-7-amines and derivatives and their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts are useful in the treatment of hypertension.

Abstract: Novel guanylamidines and the pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof having activity as hypoglycemic agents are disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to a new class of antibiotics (I): ##STR1## wherein the stylized radical (hereafter referred to as R'): ##STR2## attached to the 3-amino nitrogen of nocardicin represents a mono- or polycyclic N-containing heterocyclic group; R is, inter alia, hydrogen, substituted and unsubstituted: alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, heterocyclylalkyl, heterocyclylalkenyl, aralkenyl, aralkyl, --NR.sub.2, COOR, CONR.sub.2, --OR, or CN.

Abstract: A compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, 2-5C alkoxycarbonyl, 1-7C acyl, 1-4C alkylthio, 7-10C phenylalkylthio, phenylthio, halo-phenylthio, disubstituted aminothio, ##STR2## R.sup.1 is hydrogen or halogen; R.sup.2 is halogen or nitro;and its pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts. The compounds and salts thereof are useful as psychotropic agents and as anxiolytics, anticonvulsants and hypnotics.

Abstract: A physiologically-acceptable compound of one of the formulae ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a member selected from the group consisting of (a) a 6-membered heteroaromatic ring with up to two ring hetero atoms selected from the group consisting of O, N and S, at most one of which is different from nitrogen, and (b) an alkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and substituted by such a heteroaromatic ring;each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is, independently, a hydrogen atom, alkyl having up to 4 carbon atoms, substituted or unsubstituted aryl or, together with the other of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, unsubstituted --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH-- or --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH-- substituted by a member selected from the group consisting of alkyl having up to 4 carbon atoms, alkoxy having up to 4 carbon atoms, haloalkyl having up to 4 carbon atoms, halo and nitro;R.sup.

Abstract: A process for improving the color yield and the wet-fastness properties of dyeings produced on cellulose fibrous material with anionic dyes which process comprises treating the cellulose material before, during or after dyeing, with a fluorine-containing cationic compound of the formula ##STR1## WHEREIN B represents a triazine or pyrimidine radical,W represents a reactive fluorine atom,Z represents halogen, lower alkyl, phenyl, lower alkoxy, lower alkylthio, phenoxy, phenylthio, --NH.sub.2, or the group of the formula ##STR2## EACH OF Ar.sub.1 and Ar.sub.2 independently represents an aromatic radical,Each ofR.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently represents hydrogen, lower alkyl or hydroxy-lower alkyl,Each ofX, x.sub.1, x.sub.2, y.sub.1, y.sub.2, v.sub.1 and V.sub.2 independently represents lower alkyl, benzyl, or lower alkyl which is substituted by halogen, hydroxyl or cyano, and X also represents phenyl or methylphenyl, orEach of the pair of substituentsX.sub.1 and X.sub.2 and Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.

Abstract: Dyes having the formula: ##STR1## IN WHICH D is the radical of a diazo component; andA is the radical of a pyrimidine coupling component bearing two unsubstituted or substituted amino groups as substituents. The dyes are eminently suitable for dyeing natural and synthetic polyamides; brilliant colorations are obtained.

Abstract: The compounds are sulphoxides of heterocyclicthioalkylthioureas, ureas and guanidines which are useful to produce inhibition of histamine H-2 receptors.

Abstract: The preparation of (.+-.)-9-[.alpha.-(2.alpha.,3.beta.-dihydroxy-4.alpha.-(hydroxymethyl) cyclopentyl)]-6-substituted purines: ##STR1## and (.+-.)-3-[.alpha.-(2.alpha., 3.beta.-dihydroxy-4.alpha.-(hydroxymethyl)cyclopentyl)]-7-substituted-v-tr iazolo[4,5d]pyrimidines: ##STR2## and their derivatives wherein R is amino, mercapto, methylmercapto, hydroxy, halogen, or substituted amino: ##STR3## wherein R' and R" may be the same or different and are of hydrogen, methyl, ethyl, propyl or phenyl. The preparation of the single intermediate from which either of these series of compounds may be synthesized is also disclosed. The compounds exhibit antiviral and antitumor activity.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of a 4-chloro-5-alkoxycarbonyl-2-methoxy-pyrimidine of the formula: ##STR1## IN WHICH R.sub.

Abstract: As a new class of multifunctional additives for industrial fluids, the compounds having the following general formula: ##STR1## IN WHICH EACH X and Y represents a heterocyclic nitrogen radical and may be the same or different for each occurrence of X and Y; Z is a basic nitrogen-containing radical; n is 0 or an integer of at least 1, preferably 1 to 10; and A, B, C, and D are linked groups derived from compounds which may provide desired functions, such as detergent, antioxidant, and antiwear properties, or indirectly useful functions, such as adsorbency. At least one of A, B, C, or D is amino or anilino or is derived from an alkenylsuccinimide or an alkyl lactam or tetrahydropyrrolidine, or alkyl-substituted Mannich base, having at least 8 carbon atoms in the alkenyl or alkyl radical, or combinations of any of these. The reaction between these products and metal compounds particularly alkali and alkaline earth metal compounds provides more improved properties.

Abstract: 5-Pyrimidinecarbonitriles, having amino substituents in the 2 and 6 positions and an alkoxy substituent in the 4 position, exhibit herbicidal activity. The preparation of novel active compounds and intermediates in this class is described; herbicidal compositions containing the active compounds are illustrated; and methods for utilizing the herbicidal compositions to control plant growth are disclosed.