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AssigneeBayer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsKlaus Wagner, Ludwig Eue, Robert R. Schmidt, Ernst Roos
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Novel 2,4-bis-(trifluoromethyl)-6-nitrophenol compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which X is hydrogen; M; HNR.spsp.+.sup.1 R.sup.2 R.sup.3 ; --COR.sup.4 ; --COOR.sup.5 ; N,N-dimethylaminocarbonyl; --SO.sub.2 R.sup.6 or --CO--NH--R.sup.7 ; M is an equivalent of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal, R.sup.1, r.sup.2 and R.sup.3 (individually) are hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkenyl, hydroxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, phenyalkyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 individually are alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl, R.sup.6 is alkyl, substituted alkyl, phenyl, substituted phenyl or dimethylamino, and R.sup.7 is alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl; Are outstandingly effective selective herbicides.
2,4-bis-(trifluoromethyl)-6-nitrophenol compound of the formula ##STR44## wherein X is HN.sup.+ R.sup.1 R.sup.2 R.sup.3 ;
Method of combatting undesired vegetation which method comprises applying to said vegetation or its habitat a herbicidally effective amount of a 2,4-bis-(trifluoromethyl)-6-nitrophenol derivative of the general formula ##STR45## wherein X is HN.sup.+ R.sup.1 R.sup.2 R.sup.3 and R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are individually hydrogen, alkyl of from 1 to 12 carbon atoms, alkoxyalkyl of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms in each of the alkoxy and alkyl moieties, hydroxyalkyl of up to 3 carbon atoms alkenyl of from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl of from 5 to 6 carbon atoms in the ring system, phenylalkyl of from 1 or 2 carbon atoms in the alkyl moiety, and phenyl which may be substituted by chlorine, bromine, trifluoromethyl, nitro or methyl
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