Herbicidal 1-acylimidazolinones

US4615726A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Roland Schmierer · Todtenweis, DE
• Reinhard Handte · Gablingen, DE
• Hilmar Mildenberger · Kelkheim, DE
• Klaus Bauer · Rodgau, DE
• Hermann Bieringer · Eppstein, DE
• Helmut Burstell · Frankfurt am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 18, 1984
• Grant date: Oct 7, 1986
• Expiry date: Dec 18, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D413/04
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein A denotes N or CR.sup.4, B denotes a carboxyl, carbo-(thio) ester, (substituted) carboxamide or carboxanilide, carbohydroxy(alkoxy)-amide, (substituted) carbohydrazide or (substituted) oxazoline group, X and Y denote, inter alia, alkyl or, together, spiroalkyl, Z denotes a carbo-(di)(thio) ester, carboxyl, (substituted) (thio)-carboxamide or -carboxanilide group or the radical of a ketone-acid or of a ketone-ester and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 denote H or are identical or different and denote halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, halogenoalkyl, NO.sub.2, CN, (substituted) phenyl or phenoxy, or two of these radicals can form a --CH.dbd.CH--CH.dbd.CH-- group, are useful total or selective herbicides for application by the pre-emergence and, in some cases, the post-emergence method.