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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 18, 1989
Balasubramanyan Sugavanam, Berkshire, GB;
Paul A Worthington, Berkshire, GB;
John M Clough, Buckinghamshire, GB;
Imperial Chemical Industries PLC, London, GB;
Abstract
This invention relates to triazole and imidazole compounds useful as fungicides, to a process for preparing them, to fungicidal compositions containing them, and to a method of combating fungal infections in plants using them. The triazole and imidazole compounds have the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, which may be the same or different, are hydrogen, alkyl, optionally substituted cycloalkyl, cycloalkylmethyl, alkenyl, heterocyclyl, aryl or aralkyl optionally substituted with halogen, nitro, alkyl, haloalkyl, alkoxy, phenyl, phenoxy, benzyl, benzyloxy, halophenyl or haloalkoxy; R.sup.3 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl or acyl; R.sup.4 and R.sup.5, which may be the same or different, are hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl or optionally substituted aryl; R.sup.6 and R.sup.7, which may be the same or different, are hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl or optionally substituted aryl; X is oxygen or sulphur or is SO or SO.sub.2 and Az is a 1,2,4- or 1,3,4-triazole or imidazole ring; and isomers, acid addition salts and metal complexes thereof.