US Patent Issued to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION on April 1 for "Process for the preparation of microbiocidal oxadiazole derivatives" (Swiss, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,138, issued on April 1, was assigned to SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Process for the preparation of microbiocidal oxadiazole derivatives" was invented by Thomas James Hoffman (Stein, Switzerland), Regis Jean Georges Mondiere (Stein, Switzerland), Edouard Godineau (Stein, Switzerland), Wolfgang Stutz (Munchwilen, Switzerland), Sujit Kumar Ghorai (Goa, India) and Anup Jawalekar (Goa, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a process according to Scheme 1 for the preparation of microbiocidal 5-trifluoromethyl-1,2,4-oxadiazole derivatives of formula (I) suitable for use, e.g., as active...