The Dow Chemical Company

Peter Kinzel

Norman Haberle

Anneliese Reutter

Gerhard Staiger

Substituted 1-phenyl-3-methyl-pyrrolidinediones of the general formula: ##STR1## in which R may represent fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, CN, SCN or methanesulfonyl, Z represents one or more of the same or different substituents selected from fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, NO.sub.2, CN, SCN, sulfamoyl, phenoxy, an alkyl having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, a halogenalkyl having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and 1 to 7 halogen atoms selected from fluorine, chlorine or bromine, an alkyloxy having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, a halogenalkoxy having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms and 1 to 4 halogen atoms selected from the group consisting of fluorine, chlorine and bromine, an allyloxy or ethoxycarbonyl, and n is 0 or an integer from 1 to 4 with the following types of substitutions: 2-, 4-, 2,3-, 2,4-, 2,5-, 2,6-, 3,4-, 2,3,4-, 2,3,5-, 2,3,6-, 2,4,5-, 2,4,6-, 3,4,5-, 2,3,4,5-, 2,4,5,6- and 2,3,5,6-. The invention also relates to a process for making the compounds, which are active ingredients of fungicidal agents.

1-substituted phenyl-3-substituted methyl-pyrrolidine-2,5-diones and

The invention concerns compounds having the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 can mean identical or different radicals in any desired position on the benzene ring, namely fluoro, chloro, bromo, iodo, cyano, or nitro radicals, alkyl radicals having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, cyclo alkyl radicals having from 3 to 7 carbon atoms, phenyl, phenylsulfonyl and phenoxy radicals and hydrogen;

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