Abstract: This invention pertains to improved antiviral activity of 6,6-disubstituted-5,6-dihydropyran-2-ones caused by judicious placement of certain polar substituents at the 3 and/or 6 positions.The same substituents which enhance the cellular activity also diminish cytotoxicity further enhancing the desirable properties of these agents as antivirals.

Abstract: A process for the production of lower molecular weight polymers by free radical polymerization, characterized in that there is added to the polymerization system a compound of the general formula I ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, chlorine, an alkyl group, or a group capable of activating the vinylic carbon towards free radical addition;R.sup.2 is hydrogen or an optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, cycloalkenyl or cycloalkyl group or the group --COZ, where Z is R.sup.3 or OR.sup.3, where R.sup.3 is hydrogen or an optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl or aryl group.X is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl or aryl group, or a halogen, and the two X groups may be the same or different.The invention also includes polymers or oligomers made by the process and novel compounds of the generated formula I as defined above.

Abstract: Benzocyclobutene-1,2-dichlorides, -bromides and -iodides which are substituted in the benzene ring are accessible in good yields and short reaction times by reacting substituted 1,2-(dichloromethyl or dibromomethyl)-benzenes with NaI in acetonitrile as the solvent. They can be used together with dienophils, for example 1,4-quinones, in Diels-Alder reactions.

Abstract: A compound of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently of one another are each C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, phenyl, sulfo, sulfato, thiosulfato, cyano or halogen, C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 cycloalkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, or phenyl or naphthyl which both are unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 alkanoylamino, benzoylamino, halogen or sulfo, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkyl which is unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, phenyl, sulfo, sulfato, thiosulfato, cyano or halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 alkoxy which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, or phenoxy which is unsubstituted or substituted by C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, C.sub.2 -C.sub.

Abstract: Indicators for the detection of thio groups are disclosed together with processes for the preparation of such indicators.

Abstract: The invention relates to certain substituted phenoxypropionaldehyde derivatives, formulations of said derivatives and the use thereof for preemergence or postemergence control of noxious plants, i.e., weeds.