Control of unwanted plant growth with 2-aryloxy-2-azolylalkanecarboxamides, herbicides containing them, and the manufacture thereof

US4789747A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Gerd Husslein · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Eberhard Ammermann · Heppenheim, DE
• Gerhard Hamprecht · Weinheim, DE
• Bruno Wuerzer · Otterstadt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 8, 1986
• Grant date: Dec 6, 1988
• Expiry date: Dec 8, 2006

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D249/08
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for combating the growth of unwanted plants, wherein the soil or the plants are treated with a compound of the formula ##STR1## where Ar denotes substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or naphthyl, R.sup.1 denotes hydrogen or methyl, R.sup.2 denotes hydrogen or alkyl, R.sup.3 denotes alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or substituted aralkyl, and Az denotes substituted or unsubstituted pyrazole, imidazole or triazole, or a metal complex thereof, and herbicides for carrying out the process.