Fmc Corporation

Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Pioneer Hi-bred International, Inc.

Other

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Andrew Duncan Satterfield

Matthew James Campbell

James Francis Bereznak

Thomas Martin Stevenson

Thomas Paul Selby

Andrew Edmund Taggi

James Alan Morris

Christopher John Mathews

James Nicholas Scutt

Glynn Mitchell

William Guy Whittingham

David Andrew Travis

Jonathan Wesley Paul Dallimore

Phillip A Patten

Linda A Castle

Yumin Tao

Ericka Bermudez

Daniel Siehl

Kanu Maganbhai Patel

Kevin L Crouthamel

Henrik Albert

Yuxia Dong

Nabila Brabez

Stephen Frederick McCann

Eugine Choi

Gary Christensen

Luca Salvi

Kenneth Ling

Timothy Robert Desson

Zhisheng Gao

Kenneth Andrew Hughes

Matthew W Boland

Willie Allan Givens, Jr

John T Fogarty

Katharine Mary Ingram

Willie A Givens

Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides of the compounds and salts of the compounds and N-oxides: Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds, N-oxides and salts, and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of such a compound. N-oxide, salt or composition.

Substituted cyclic amides and their use as herbicides

Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides of the compounds and salts of the compounds and N-oxides: Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds, N-oxides and salts, and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of such a compound, N-oxide, salt or composition.

Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all N-oxides, stereoisomers, and salts thereof, wherein Q, Q, R, R, Y, J and Rare as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.

Aryl substituted bicyclic compounds as herbicides

Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof: wherein R, R, R, R, R, R, Q, Q, Y, and Yare as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.

Pyrrolidinones herbicides

Pyrrolidinones as herbicides

Disclosed are compounds of Formula (1), including all stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof, (Formula (1)) wherein G, J, Q, R, Y, Q, Rand Yare as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula (1) and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention. 

Cyclic N-carboxamide compounds useful as herbicides

Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides of the compounds and salts of the compounds and N-oxides: wherein R, R, R, R, R, R, Q, Q, J, Y, and Yare as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds, N-oxides and salts, and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of such a compound, N-oxide, salt or composition.

Compositions and methods comprising polynucleotides and polypeptides having 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) activity and having insensitivity to an HPPD inhibitor are provided. Further provided are nucleic acid constructs, plants, plant cells, explants, seeds and grain having the HPPD sequences. Various methods of employing the HPPD sequences are provided. Such methods include, for example, methods for producing an HPPD inhibitor tolerant plant, plant cell, explant or seed and methods of controlling weeds in a field containing a crop employing the plants and/or seeds disclosed herein. Methods are also provided to identify additional HPPD variants. Further provided are various methods and compositions that allow the various HPPD polypeptides and variant and fragments thereof to be expressed in a chloroplast or transported to a chloroplast.

Compositions and methods comprising sequences having hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) activity

Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all stereoisomers, N oxides, and salts thereof, wherein R, R, R, R, J, Q, Q, A, Y, and Yare as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.

Substituted cyclic amides as herbicides

Systems and methods are provided for estimating the total base number of used oil in an engine. The systems and methods can involve characterizing the sulfur content and at least one other element content of the oil both before introduction into the engine and after passing through an engine cylinder during combustion. Depending on the aspect, a total base number of the oil prior to use can also be measured, or the total base number before use can be estimated based on the at least one element content.

Determination of total base number in lubricants

A method for preventing or reducing engine knock or pre-ignition in a high compression spark ignition engine lubricated with a lubricating oil by introducing to a combustion chamber of the engine from 0.1 to 5% by volume of the gasoline used a lubricating oil as a formulated oil, said formulated oil having a composition comprising (i) a major amount of a lubricating oil base stock comprising at least 80% by weight of one branched ester having at least 15% of the total carbons in the form of methyl groups, and (ii) a minor amount of at least one ashless amine phosphate antiwear additive. Also provided is a lubricating engine oil for high compression spark ignition engines including (i) a major amount of a lubricating oil base stock comprising at least 80% by weight formula I below: esterified (per &#x2014;OH basis) with 25 to 100% isobutyric acid and 0 to 75% 3,5,5-trimethylhexanoic acid, wherein R is a H, methyl, ethyl, isopropyl, or isobutyl, and (ii) a minor amount of at least one amine phosphate ashless antiwear additive.

Method and composition for preventing or reducing engine knock and pre-ignition in high compression spark ignition engines

Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein R, R, R, R, R, Q, Q, Y, and Yare as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of a compound or a composition of the invention.

Butyrolactones as herbicides

Provided are marine lubricating oils including from 15 to 95 wt % of a Group III base stock having a kinematic viscosity at 100 deg. C. of 4 to 12 cSt, 0.5 to 55 wt % of cobase stock having a kinematic viscosity at 100 deg. C. of 29 to 1000 cSt, 0.1 to 2.0 wt % of a molydithiocarbamate friction modifier, 0.1 to 2.0 wt % of a zinc dithiocarbamate anti-wear additive, and 2 to 30 wt % of other lubricating oil additives. The cobase stock is selected from the group consisting of a Group I, a Group IV, a Group V and combinations thereof. Also provided are methods of making and using the marine lubricating oils.

Marine lubricating oils and method of making and use thereof

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Andrew Duncan Satterfield