Otsuka Kagaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Otsuka Kagaku Yakuhin Kabushiki Kaisha

Tetsuya Imai

Hisashi Takao

Takeshi Goto

Tadateru Murata

Akihide Ando

Kenichi Toyohara

Toshiro Uchida

Izuru Yamamoto

This invention provides an imidazole derivative represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R is lower alkyl, lower alkoxyalkyl, lower alkoxycarbonylmethyl or cyanomethyl, and X.sup.1 and X.sup.2 are each a hydrogen atom or halogen atom, process for preparing the derivative, and a fungicidal compositions comprising the derivative for use in agriculture and horticulture.

Fungicidal imidazole derivatives

This invention provides an imidazol-1-yl-carboxylic acid ester derivative represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is lower alkyl, cycloalkyl or R.sup.3 (CH.sub.3).sub.2 C--(wherein R.sup.3 is halogenomethyl, acyloxymethyl or alkoxycarbonyl), R.sup.2 is a hydrogen atom, lower alkyl or cycloalkyl, X is a hydrogen atom, halogen atom, lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, lower alkenyl, lower alkoxyl, lower alkenyloxy, lower alkynyloxy, lower alkylthio, haloalkyl, haloalkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, substituted or unsubstiuted benzyl, substituted or unsubstituted phenoxy, nitro, cyano, --COR.sup.4 l (wherein R.sup.4 is lower alkoxyl, lower alkenyloxy, benzyloxy, lower alkylamino or anilino)or ##STR2## (wherein R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 are each lower alkyl, acyl, sulfonyl or lower alkoxycarbonyl), n is an integer of from 1 to 3, Y and Z are the same or different and are each an oxygen atom or sulfur atom, a is 0 or 1, and b is 1 or 2, process for preparing the derivative, and a fungicidal composition comprising the derivative as an active component.

Fungicidal imidazol-1-yl-carboxylic acid ester derivatives

Herbicidal imidazolidine-2-one derivatives

Sulfinamide derivatives, a process for preparing the derivatives and

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Tetsuya Imai