Agents for influencing plant growth

US4923503A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Guenter Schulz · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Ernst Buschmann · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Hubert Sauter · Mannheim, DE
• Bernd Zeeh · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Bruno Wuerzer · Otterstadt, DE
• Johann Jung · Schifferstadt, DE
• Guenter Retzlaff · Münstermaifeld, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 30, 1984
• Grant date: May 8, 1990
• Expiry date: Nov 30, 2004

Classification

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

Abstract

Agents for influencing plant growth, containing as active ingredient an azolylacetophenone oxime ether of the formula ##STR1## where R and R.sup.1 independently of one another are each hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, cycloakyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylsulfonyl, haloalkyl, nitro, cyano, phenyl or phenoxy, R.sup.2 is hydrogen, alkyl, aralkyl, allyl or propargyl, R.sup.3 is a divalent radical of the formula --(CH.sub.2).sub.m --, --(CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 O--).sub.u CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, --(CH.sub.2).sub.v CH.dbd.CH--(CH.sub.2).sub.t -- or --(CH.sub.2).sub.v --C.tbd.C--(CH.sub.2).sub.t --, n, p, u, v and t independently of one another are each 1, 2 or 3, m is an integer from 2 to 10, and Az is 1,2,4-triazol-1-yl, pyrazol-1-yl or imidazol-1-yl, or a salt or metal complex thereof, and a method of influencing plant growth or of destroying unwanted plants with these active ingredients.