Pesticidal 1-arylimidazoles

US5223525A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Rhone-Poulenc, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Tai-Teh Wu · Chapel Hill, US
• David N. Sinodis · Cary, US
• Philip Reid Timmons · Durham, US
• Gail S. Powell · Raleigh, US
• David Teh-Wei Chou · Bad Soden, DE
• Peter Wyatt Newsome · Chapel Hill, US
• Lee S. Hall · Raleigh, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 31, 1990
• Grant date: Jun 29, 1993
• Expiry date: Oct 31, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D233/88
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention describes novel 1-arylimidazoles of formula (I) ##STR1## wherein typically preferred substituents are: X is S(O).sub.n R.sub.1, in which R.sub.1 is an alkyl group, preferably a methyl group, which is fully substituted by halogen atoms, and n is 0, 1 and 2; PA1 Y is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, alkoxyalkylideneimino, alkylsulfenyl, alkylsulfinyl or alkylsulfonyl; PA1 Z is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, preferably methyl; and PA1 R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are individually hydrogen, halogen or an unsubstituted or halo-substituted alkyl, alkoxy, alkylsulfenyl, alkylsulfinyl or alkylsulfonyl. The invention further describes intermediates and processes to make the compounds, compositions of the compounds, and methods of use of the compounds for the control of arthropods (especially mites, aphids or insects), nematodes, helminths, or protozoa.