Organic nitriles as insect antifeedants

US4966913A · kind A · utility

Assignees

• The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Agriculture · US
• Cornell Research Foundation, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Richard G. Powell · Peoria, US
• Kenneth L. Mikolajczak · Dunlap, US
• Bruce W. Zilkowski · Peoria, US
• Jon Clardy · Ithaca, US
• Ellen K. Mantus · Ithaca, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 3, 1990
• Grant date: Oct 30, 1990
• Expiry date: Apr 3, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D209/18
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Members of a novel class of organic nitriles related to an indole alkaloid of Dithyrea wislizenii (Cruciferae) have been discovered to be patent feeding inhibitors of the fall armyworm and European corn borer.