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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 06, 1990
Kengo Oda, Mobara, JP;
Koichi Moriyasu, Mobara, JP;
Masao Hayashi, Mobara, JP;
Makoto Nishida, Mobara, JP;
Masami Oyamada, Mobara, JP;
Akie Fujiwara, Mobara, JP;
Junko Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsui Toatsu Chemicals, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
1-(3-Substituted benzyl)-3-halogeno-4-(1-halogenoalkyl)-2-pyrrolidinones of the general formula (I): ##STR1## where X represents a hydrogen atom or halogen atom, Y and Z each represents a chlorine atom or bromine atom, and R represents an alkyl group with 2 to 4 carbon atoms, are herbicides useful in rice paddy fields to control weeds therein, especially Echinochloa crusgalli and can be produced subjecting the corresponding 3-dihalogeno compounds to dehalogenation to remove one of the halogen atoms or by cyclizing a 2,2-dihalogenoacetamide derivative represented by the general formula (II) under the presence of an appropriate catalyst; ##STR2## in which X, Y, Z and R respectively have the same meanings as described above.