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US 4,357,159 AGranted
Haloethylthienylsulphonates for the regulation of plant metabolism
AssigneeCiba-Geigy Corporation
InventorBernhard Gloor
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Abstract
A composition and a method for regulating the plant-metabolism, especially for promoting the abcission of citrus fruit and olives are disclosed, which use as active component a sulphonyl ester of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is an alkyl, alkenyl, phenyl naphthyl, diphenyl or thienyl radical, X is oxygen or sulphur and Hal is a halogen atom.
Claims6
A method for promoting the abscission of fruit which comprises applying to a fruit bearing plant or to a fruit itself an effective amount of a compound of the formula
- R.sub.1 --SO.sub.2 --X--CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --Hal
- wherein
- R.sub.1 is thienyl optionally mono- to tri-substituted by one or more members selected from the group consisting of halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl and trifluoromethyl,
- X is oxygen or sulphur, and
- Hal is fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.