Dow AgroSciences is a global company committed to discovering, developing, and bringing to market crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions for the growing world. The crop protection business is focused on protecting crops from the yield-reducing pressure of fungi, weeds, and insects. Some key weed control products in the Dow AgroSciences crop protection portfolio are picolinate herbicides that act via an auxinic mode of action. The history of these auxinic herbicides at Dow AgroSciences is long and storied. This history will be related as background for the invention of ArylexTM active (halauxifen methyl), a novel arylpicolinate herbicide that exhibits potent post-emergent control of key broadleaf weeds in cereal crops. The synthesis and SAR of compounds that led to the discovery of ArylexTM active will be presented. (TM Trademark of Dow AgroSciences LLC)

Discovery and SAR of Arylex<sup>TM</sup> active: A novel auxinic herbicide

248th National Meeting (2014)

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Discovery and SAR of ArylexTM active: A novel auxinic herbicide

Discovery and SAR of Arylex^TM active: A novel auxinic herbicide