Arthropod maturation inhibitors

US3933865A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture · US

Inventors

• Meyer Schwarz · Kensington, US
• Philip E. Sonnet · Bowie, US
• Nobel Wakabayashi · New Carrollton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 15, 1975
• Grant date: Jan 20, 1976
• Expiry date: Jan 15, 1995

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D303/36
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A number of terpenoid compounds and their epoxides were synthesized and found to prevent insect maturation when applied to insects in an immature stage of growth.