Tricyclic benzoylcyclohexanedione derivatives

US6583089B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• BASF SE

Inventors

• Matthias Witschel · Bad Dürkheim, DE
• Steffen Kudis · Mannheim, DE
• Klaus Langemann · Worms, DE
• Ernst Baumann · Dudenhofen, DE
• Wolfgang von Deyn · Neustadt, DE
• Guido Mayer · Neheim, DE
• Ulf Misslitz · Neustadt, DE
• Ulf Neidlein · Mannheim, DE
• Martina Otten · Ludwigshafen, DE
• Karl-Otto Westphalen · Speyer, DE
• Helmut Walter · Obrigheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 29, 2001
• Grant date: Jun 24, 2003
• Expiry date: Nov 29, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C07D495/04
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

Tricyclic benzoylcyclohexanedione derivatives of the formula I where X, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R9, and m are defined herein, and their agriculturally useful salts. Process for preparing the tricyclic benzoylcyclohexanedione derivatives; compositions comprising them and the use of these derivatives or of the compositions comprising them for controlling undesirable plants are described.