Abstract: Aminosulfonylcarboxylic acids and their manufacture from diamines and chlorosulfonylcarboxylic acids.

Abstract: Tropone derivatives characterized by having a derivative of oxamic acid at positions 2 and or 5 are disclosed. In addition, the tropone nucleus can be optionally further substituted. The foregoing compounds are useful for preventing or treating allergic conditions in a mammal. Methods for the preparation and use of said compounds are disclosed.

Abstract: s-Phenenyltris(sulfonylimino)tri-anionic substituted benzene dicarboxylic acids and substituted alkyl amino acids and their salts, useful as complement inhibitors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to isocyanato-polysulphonic acids comprising from 1 to 3 aromatically bound isocyanate groups which may be present at least partly in the dimerized form as uretdione groups and from 2 to 6 sulphonic acid groups for each non-dimerized isocyanato-polysulphonic acid or for each monomeric isocyanato-polysulphonic acid on which the dimer is based. These acids are produced by reacting mono- or poly-isocyanates having exclusively aromatically bound isocyanate groups with sulphur trioxide at -10.degree. C to 140.degree. C, wherein the isocyanate used as starting material which is to be sulphonated is reacted with at least 50% by weight of sulphur trioxide, based on the quantity of isocyanate used as starting material. Alternatively they may be produced using isocyanate-monosulphonic acids which have exclusively aromatically bound isocyanate-groups.

Abstract: Novel 3-(butylamino) or (1-pyrrolidinyl)-4-phenoxy-5-sulfamylbenzoic acid derivatives where the butyl group contains either a double bond or a hydroxy, ketone, acid or ester functional group or groups, said compounds being useful as diuretics.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel derivatives of L-phenylalanine and particularly to tosyl-paraguanidino-L-phenylalanine methyl ester, to ter-butyloxycarbonyl derivative of para-guanidino-L-phenylalanine and to para-guanidino-L-phenylalanine.The tosyl-paraguanidino-L-phenylalanine methyl ester is an efficient trypsine substrate.

Abstract: L-2-amino-4-(2-aminoethoxy)-butanoic acid, methods for its preparation and novel intermediates employed in these processes are disclosed. L-2-amino-4-(2-aminoethoxy)-butanoic acid enhances ethylene production in fruit and therefore has utility as a ripening agent and as an abscission agent.

Abstract: Sulfonic acid-N'-methylamido-N'-sulfenyl-N-methyl-carbamic acid esters of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is dialkylamino with 1-4 carbon atoms in each alkyl group, phenyl substituted in the o- or m-position by halogen or by alkyl with 1-4 carbon atoms, or phenyl substituted in the o-, m- or p-position by NO.sub.2, CF.sub.3 or CN, andR.sup.2 is phenyl, naphthyl, benzodioxolanyl or indanyl; phenyl, naphthyl, benzodioxolanyl or indanyl substituted by trihalogenomethyl, halogen, nitro, cyano, formamidino, dioxanyl or dioxolanyl, or by alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, alkenoxy, alkynoxy, alkylmercapto, alkenylmercapto or dialkylamino wherein each hydrocarbon portion has 1-4 carbon atoms; cycloalkyl of 5-7 carbon atoms, or ##STR2## in which R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 each independently is cyano or alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio or alkoxycarbonyl with 1-4 carbon atoms in each alkyl group, or R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 together form a ring, or, provided that R.sup.1 is a NO.sub.2 -substituted phenyl, R.sup.

Abstract: A method for regulating the elongation of plants so as to increase their resistance to lodging by applying a plant regulating effective amount of a plant growth regulator containing as active ingredient a benzenesulfonamide compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein X, R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and n are as defined hereinbelow.

Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of formula I ##STR1## in which R.sub.1 and R.sub.4, independently, are hydrogen, a non-chromophoric second order substituent, or alkyl or alkenyl unsubstituted or substituted by a non-chromophoric group,R.sub.2 and R.sub.5, independently, are hydrogen or alkyl or alkenyl, unsubstituted or substituted by a non-chromophoric group,R.sub.3 and R.sub.6, independently, are hydrogen, alkyl, carboxyl or a non-chromophoric esterified carboxyl group, orR.sub.2, together with R.sub.3, and/or R.sub.5 together with R.sub.6, signify an alkylene bridge,R.sub.7 and R.sub.8, independently, signify hydrogen or a non-chromophoric substituent, or, whenR.sub.7 is in the 3-position and/or R.sub.8 in the 3' position, R.sub.7 together with R.sub.2, and/or R.sub.8 together with R.sub.5 signify an alkylene bridge,With the proviso that no more than one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 and no more than one of R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 signify hydrogen, their production and use as optical brightening agents.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with new herbicidally active 4-phenoxy-.alpha.-phenoxy-alkanecarboxylic acid derivatives, especially propionic acid esters of the type ##STR1## bearing in the first phenoxy radical a nitro group besides another substituent R.sub.1 which is preferably a halogen atom, the CF.sub.3 group is lower alkyl, alkoxy or alkoxycarbonyl group. The invention is further concerned with herbicidal compositions containing such new derivatives and with methods for the selective control of grass-like weeds in crops of dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous cultivated plants such as cereals.

Abstract: N.sup.2 -arylsulfonyl-L-argininamides and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have been found to be effective as pharmaceutical agents for the inhibition and suppression of thrombosis in mammals.

Abstract: N.sup.2 -arylsulfonyl-L-argininamides and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have been found to be effective as pharmaceutical agents for the inhibition and suppression of thrombosis in mammals.

Abstract: An in-situ process for preparing organic sulfone compounds by oxidizing the corresponding sulfide compound with a mixture of hydrogen peroxide, a carboxylic acid in the presence of a catalytic amount of a mineral acid or an organic sulfonic acid.

Abstract: Novel N-haloalkanesulfenylcarbamoyloxime compounds have been found to have exceptional miticidal and insecticidal activity.

Abstract: A process for the cross-linking or chain-extension of hydrocarbon polymers which contain ethylenically unsaturated groups which comprises forming an intimate mixture of the polymer with a mono-sulphonyloxycarbamate of the formula:A -- O -- CO -- NH -- O -- SO.sub.2 R (1)wherein A is an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, a substituted alkyl group, a substituted aryl group or a heterocyclic group, and R is an optionally substituted alkyl or aryl group.The process is useful for natural and synthetic rubbers. The rate and extent of cross linking may be modified by the additives such as tertiary amines or conventional rubber additives e.g. tetramethyl and zinc diethyl dithiocarbamates, which contain tertiary amino groups.

Abstract: N.sup.2 -arylsulfonyl-L-argininamides and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have been found to be effective as pharmaceutical agents for the inhibition and suppression of thrombosis in mammals.

Abstract: N-[2-(Substituted amido)phenyl]-N',N"-bis-carbonylguanidines bearing an optionally substituted phenoxy, phenylthio, phenylsulfinyl or phenylsulfonyl group in the 4- or 5-position of the 2-(substituted amido)-phenyl group are anthelmintic agents. The compounds, of which N-(2-acetamido-4-phenylthiophenyl)-N',N"-bis-carbomethoxyguanidine is a typical example, are prepared through the reaction of isothiourea-S-alkyl ether and an appropriately substituted 2-aminoanilide.

Abstract: Phenyl-substituted perfluoroalkanesulfonanilides in which the phenyl rings are linked by sulfur, sulfinyl or sulfonyl and salts thereof in which the rings and the perfluoroalkylsulfonamido nitrogen are optionally substituted. The compounds are active herbicides and some are anti-inflammatory agents and analgesic agents.

Abstract: Novel carbonic acid esters are disclosed which are useful in a process for introducing esterified carboxy-type protective groups on amino and/or imino groups in amino and/or imino group - containing compounds for the temporary protection of said amino and/or imino groups. Additionally, processes for preparing said esters are also disclosed.

Abstract: Carbalkoxythioureidobenzene derivatives represented by the following formula: ##STR1## where R is a lower alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R.sup.1 is --SR.sup.2, --SOR.sup.2, --SO.sub.2 R.sup.2, --OR.sup.2, --SCN, --SC(O)NR.sup.3 R.sup.4, or --M'(CH.sub.2).sub.n MR.sup.7 where n is 1-4; R.sup.2 is lower alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl having 3 to 7 carbon atoms, lower alkenyl or lower alkynyl having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, aralkyl or aryl, provided that when R.sup.1 is --SO.sub.2 R.sup.2, R.sup.2 is not aralkyl or phenyl; R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are independently hydrogen or lower alkyl having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; Y is amino, nitro, acylamino where the acyl portion has 1 to 6 carbon atoms, --NHC(O) (CH.sub.2).sub.m COOH where m is 1-6, or --NHC(S)NHCOOR; M and M' are independently O, S or ##STR2## and R.sup.7 is lower alkyl having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or aryl. The R.sup.1 substitution is either at the 4- or 5-position.

Abstract: Certain nuclear substituted benzylidene amino oxyalkyl carboxylic acids esters, amides and salts thereof have been found to have a strong anti-inflammatory activity and a potent analgetic activity. In addition, some of the compounds have an activity against Rhino virus. An example is [(4-chlorobenzylideneamino)oxy] acetic acid.

Abstract: Benzene derivatives of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is alkyl, R.sup.2 is a group --SR.sup.3, --SOR.sup.3, --SO.sub.2 R.sup.3 or --OR.sup.3, in which R.sup.3 is alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl or cycloalkylalkyl, whose position on the benzene ring is either para to --NHCOAZ or para to the heterocyclo group, A is a C.sub.1-4 aliphatic hydrocarbon radical, B is a bivalent methylene or ethylene group, and Z is a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group, and acid addition salts and quaternary ammonium derivatives thereof, are new compounds useful as anthelmintics and antifungal agents.

Abstract: Diphenyl ethers of the formula ##STR1## whereinR.sup.1 is hydrogen or halogen,R.sup.2 is hydrogen, halogen, or cyano,R is ##STR2## wherein R.sup.3 is hydrogen, halogen, nitro, alkyl, or alkoxy,R.sup.4 is a divalent alkylene radical, andR.sup.5 is cyano or -COR.sup.6, wherein R.sup.6 is alkoxy, hydroxy or salt thereof, allyloxy, alkoxyalkoxy, amino, alkyl or dialkyl amino, aminoalkoxy, or alkyl or dialkylaminoalkoxy,And diphenyl sulfides, sulfoxides, and sulfones of the formula ##STR3## wherein R.sup.8 is hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nitro, alkyl, alkoxy, or trifluoromethyl,R.sup.2 is hydrogen, halogen or cyano,X is sulfur, sulfinyl, or sulfonyl, andR is as defined above,And compositions containing these compounds exhibit herbicidal activity.

Abstract: 3-Carbalkoxyamino-1H-2,1,4-benzothiadiazine derivatives are disclosed as well as a process for their manufacture. The compounds are suitable for combatting helminths and especially gastrointestinal Strongylides and liver flukes.

Abstract: Anti-allergic agents of aromatic oxamic acid derivation present the following formula: ##STR1## in which A is a member selected from the group consisting of .alpha.-naphthyl, .beta.-naphthyl, phenyl, 2,6-dichlorophenyl, and substituted phenyl moieties containing from one to three substituents in any of the 2,3,4 and 5 positions of the phenyl ring, independently selected from the group consisting of lower alkyl, lower alkylthio, lower alkylsulfinyl, lower alkoxy, hydroxy (lower)alkoxy, 2-(oxalyloxy) ethoxy, benzyloxy, N-mono- and di-lower alkylamino(lower)alkoxy, halo, sulfamyl, polyhalo(lower)alkyl, carbamyl, N-lower alkylcarbamyl, nitro, mono and di lower alkylamino, carboxy, lower alkylcarbonyl, carb(lower)alkoxy, phenoxy(lower)alkoxy, and oxalamidophenoxy radicals;And pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.

Abstract: This invention relates to a synthesis of biotin by the reduction of dehydrobiotin. The dehydrobiotin is prepared from 6-hydroxy-7-nitro-heptanoic acid methyl ester. Novel intermediates are also obtained by this synthesis.

Abstract: In the process for preparing a diurethane, particularly an aromatic diurethane, by the reaction of an organic dinitro compound, particularly an aromatic dinitro compound, carbon monoxide, and an organic hydroxyl compound in the presence of a catalyst, the improvement which comprises employing as said catalyst rhodium oxide, particularly substantially amorphous rhodium oxide, and carrying out the reaction in two stages, the first stage being carried out at a first temperature and pressure and the second stage being carried out at a higher temperature and pressure, and optionally conducting the reaction in a nitrilic solvent.

Abstract: In the process for preparing a urethane, particularly an aromatic urethane, by the reaction of an organic nitro compound, particularly an aromatic nitro compound, carbon monoxide, and an organic hydroxy compound in the presence of a catalyst, the improvement which comprises employing as said catalyst rhodium oxide, particularly substantially amorphous rhodium oxide, and optionally conducting the reaction in a nitrilic solvent.

Abstract: N-(aminobenzoyl)-aminoarylsulfonic acids and their alkali metal salts of the formula ##STR1## WHEREIN X is hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, alkylamino, trifluoromethyl, phenyl, phenoxy, nitro or cyano, Y represents hydrogen, chlorine, bromine, lower alkyl or lower alkoxy, A is phenylene or naphthylene and n is 1 or 2, the sulfo group standing in 4-position to the benzoylamino group (which is in 1-position), are diazo components for the preparation of azo dyestuffs and the color toners and color lakes which may be obtained therefrom and which possess very good properties of fastness.

Abstract: N.sup.2 -alkoxynaphthalenesulfonyl-L-argininamides and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof have been found to be effective as pharmaceutical agents for the inhibition and suppression of thrombosis.

Abstract: A process for the synthesis of N-aryl-3,4-dihydro-2-alkyl-4-oxo-2H-1,2-benzothiazine-3-carboxamide 1,1-dioxides by treatment of N-aryl-N'-alkyl-N'-(2'-alkoxycarbonylbenzenesulfonyl)glycineamides, useful intermediates for said process, with an alkali or alkaline earth metal hydride in a reaction-inert solvent at 50.degree.-150.degree. C., said products being antiinflammatory agents.