Toyo Soda Mfg. Co., Ltd.

Kazuaki Tsukuda

Yuji Nonaka

Akira Nakanishi

Seigo Koura

Mikio Ito

Shinzo Someya

1,2,4-oxadiazole derivatives having selective herbicidal action in controlling broad leaf weeds and cyperaceous weeds without causing phytotoxicity to geraminous crop plants having the formula: ##STR1## wherein A is a methine group or a nitrogen atom; R.sub.1 is a chlorine atom or a methyl group; when A is a methine group, R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom if R.sub.1 is a methyl group, and a hydrogen atom or a methyl group if R.sub.1 is a chlorine atom, and when A is a nitrogen atom, R.sub.2 is a hydrogen atom; R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 11 carbon atoms, a benzyl group unsubstituted or substituted by chlorine or methoxy; a phenoxymethyl group unsubstituted or substituted by chlorine or methyl, or a lower alkoxyalkyl group.

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Kazuaki Tsukuda