Developed from a series of symposia sponsored by the Division of Agrochemicals at the 189th-192nd Meetings of the American Chemical Society. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Overview of agrochemical development / Don R. Baker, Joseph G. Fenyes, William K. Moberg, and Barrington Cross -- 3-Isoxazolidinones and related compounds : a new class of herbicides / J.H. Chang, M.J. Konz, E.A. Aly, R.E. Sticker, K.R. Wilson, N.E. Krog, and P.R. Dickinson -- Synthesis and herbicidal activity of pyridazines based on 3-chloro-4-methyl-6-[m-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]pyridazine / Dale L. Shaner, Laurine M. Speltz, and Stephen S. Szucs -- Synthesis and herbicidal properties of N-(benzylideneamino), N-(benzylamino), and N-(phenylazo) heterocycles / Kurt H. Pilgram, Willy D. Kollmeyer, Richard D. Skiles, and Larry E. Wittsell -- 2-Phenoxynicotinamides : a new class of bleaching herbicides / W.J. Michaely and A.D. Gutman -- 5-Aminofuran-3(2H)-ones : a new development in bleaching herbicides / Carl E. Ward, William C. Lo, Patricia B. Pomidor, F.E. Tisdell, Andrew W.W. Ho, Chu-Ling Chin, David M. Tuck, Carmelita R. Bernardo, Patricia J. Fong, Ahmad Omid, and Katherine A. Buteau -- [Alpha]-trichloroethylstyrene oxides : a new class of grass herbicides / L.D. Markley, E.J. Norton, L.L. Smith, Jr., and P.S. Zorner -- o-(5-Thiono-2-imidazolin-2-yl)aryl carboxylates : synthesis and herbicidal activity / Michael A. Guaciaro, Marinus Los, Ronald K. Russell, Peter J. Wepplo, Barbara L. Lences, Peter C. Lauro, Philip L. Orwick, Kai Umeda, and Pierre A. Marc -- Benzylnitramines as herbicides : synthesis, resolution, and effect of configuration on activity / D.W. Ladner, S.J. Rodaway, and Barrington Cross -- [Alpha]-cyano vinylogous ureas : a new class of herbicides / W.J. Michael, H.M. Chin, J.K. Curtis, and C.G. Knudsen -- 2-Aryl-1,2,4-triazin-3-ones and 2-aryl-1,2,4-triazepin-3-ones : synthesis and herbicidal activity / M.J. Konz, S.J. Cuccia, and S. Sehgel -- Chiral 3-benzyloxytetrahydrofuran grass herbicides derived from D-glucose / William Loh -- Synthesis and activity of analogs of the natural herbicide cyanobacterin / Janet L. Carlson, Timothy A. Leaf, and Florence K. Gleason -- Conformationally rigid peptides as models for selective herbicides / J.V. Edwards, H.G. Cutler, P.S. Zorner, and C.B. Coffman -- Synthesis and insecticidal activity of pyrethroids from substituted pyrazole methanol precursors / Thomas P. Selby -- Insecticidal substituted biphenylmethyl oxime ethers / Thomas G. Cullen, Charles J. Manly, Philip A. Cruickshank, and Sandra M. Kellar -- Synthesis of synthetic pyrethroids : stereoselection in the synthesis of cyclopropane carboxylates / William A. Kleschik -- Heterobicyclic oxime carbamates / Thomas A. Magee, Lawrence E. Limpel, Robert D. Battershell, Stephen B. Bowlus, Susan E. Branchik, William W. Brand, Russell Buchman, Hsiao-Chiung Chen, H. Glenn Corkins, Arthur J. Friedman, Andrew W.W. Ho, J. Lawrence Holodnak, Eva M. Marczewski, Kimberly S. Monti, John R. Nicklas, Edmond R. Osgood, Larry J. Powers, and Louis Storace -- Synthesis, insecticidal activity, and field performance of some S-cyanoalkyl phosphorodithioates / J.R. Sanborn, R.L. Sagaser, D. Marsden, T.A. Andrea, and B.T. Grayson -- Diphenylchloronitroethane insecticides / Joel R. Coats, Laura L. Karr, Rebecca L. Fryer, and Hunter S. Beard -- Fluorinated sulfonamides : a new class of delayed-action toxicants for fire ant control / Robert K. Vander Meer, Clifford S. Lofgren, and David F. Williams -- Synthesis, insecticidal activity, and anticholinesterase activity of some oxadiazolones / J.R. Sanborn, Kurt H. Pilgram, E.J. Ayers, and Richard D. Skiles -- Synthetic approaches to milbemycin analogs / G.I. Kornis, S.J. Nelson, and F.E. Dutton -- Nonterpenoid S-benzyl thiolcarbamates with juvenile hormonelike activity : structure-activity relationships / Albert B. DeMilo, Stephen B. Haught, and Thomas J. Kelly -- Larvicidal and fungicidal activity of compounds with hydrazinecarboxamide and diazenecarboxamide moieties / Albert B. DeMilo, Stephen B. Haught, and Hugh D. Sisler -- Biologically active organosilicon compounds : fungicidal silylmethyltriazoles / William K. Moberg, Gregory S. Basarab, John Cuomo, and Paul H. Liang -- Synthesis and fungicidal activity of triazole tertiary alcohols / Paul A. Worthington -- Successful exploitation of 2-cyano arylethyltriazoles as agricultural fungicides / T.T. Fujimoto, S.H. Shaber, H.F. Chan, J.A. Quinn, and G.R. Carlson -- Prochloraz and its analogs : chemistry, mode of action, and biological efficacy / Alister C. Baillie -- Application of molecular orbital calculations to estimate the active conformation of azole compounds / Toshiyuki Katagi, Nobuyoshi Mikami, Tadashi Matsuda, and Junshi Miyamoto -- Laetisaric acid / Philip H. Evans, Norbert H. Haunerland, and William S. Bowers -- Synthesis of alkyl N-cyano-N-substituted carbamates, thiolcarbamates, and N, N-disubstituted cyanamides / Lydia Suba, Tann Schafer, Peter G. Ruminski, and John J. D'Amico -- Asymmetric synthesis of selected insect pheromones / P.E. Sonnet, P.L. Guss, J.H. Tumlinson, T.P. McGovern, and R.T. Cunningham -- Chemical hybridizing agents : synthesis of racemic cis- and trans-methanoproline / Willy D. Kollmeyer, S.K. Barrett, and D.H. Flint -- Overview of synthetic approaches to strigol and its analogs / O.D. Dailey, Jr., Armand B. Pepperman, Jr., and S.L. Vail -- Synthetic studies of strigol and its analogs / Dee W. Brooks, Eileen Kennedy, H.S. Bevinakatti, Armand B. Pepperman, Jr., and Judith M. Bradow -- Biological activity of strigol, its precursors, and its analogs / Armand B. Pepperman, Jr., O.D. Dailey, Jr., and S.L. Vail.