JPH0784464B2 - Novel tricyclic azole derivative, method for producing the same, and agricultural / horticultural fungicide containing the derivative as an active ingredient - Google Patents

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a tricyclic azole derivative useful as an active ingredient for controlling plant diseases caused by various pathogenic fungi, a method for producing the same, and a derivative thereof as an active ingredient. The present invention relates to agricultural and horticultural fungicides.

2. Description of the Related Art As a compound having a physiological activity in which a triazole or an imidazole is bound to a tricyclic compound, a compound represented by the following general formula is known (JP-A-57-126).
(See Japanese Patent No. 479).

[In the formula, R is a bridging group — (CH ₂ ) _n- (where n is 0, 1 or 2
Or represents a bridging group -CH = CH- or -O-,-
S-, -NH-, or X represents N, or CH; Y and Z may be the same or different and each represents a halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, haloalkyl, nitro, phenyl or phenoxy group; m and p are 0, 1, 2 or 3
]].

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION Problems to be Solved by the Invention The present inventors have synthesized a large number of azole derivatives for the purpose of developing a fungicide for agricultural and horticultural use that exhibits an excellent control effect against a wide range of plant diseases, and examined their practicality. As a result, they have found that the novel tricyclic azole derivative can be effectively used as an active ingredient of the above-mentioned fungicide, and have completed the present invention. Therefore, the present invention is a novel tricyclic azole derivative useful as an active ingredient of an agricultural and horticultural fungicide, a method for producing the same, and an excellent control effect against a wide range of plant diseases containing the azole derivative as an active ingredient. It is an object to provide a fungicide for agricultural and horticultural use that plays a role.

Structure of the Invention A structural feature of the present invention is that a tricyclic azole derivative represented by the following general formula (I) is used. (In the formula, A represents a nitrogen atom or CH) An oxirane derivative represented by the following general formula (II),
Method for producing tricyclic azole derivative represented by the above general formula (I) by reacting 1,2,4-triazole or imidazole And a fungicide for agricultural and horticultural use containing the tricyclic azole derivative represented by the general formula (I) as an active ingredient.

The above-mentioned tricyclic azole derivative according to the present invention is a novel compound which has not been published in the literature and is as shown in Table 1.

The ¹ H-NMR spectrum of each compound shown in Table 1 is shown in the attached figure.

Means for Solving the Problems The tricyclic azole derivative represented by the above general formula (I) according to the present invention is produced by the following method.

When the oxirane derivative represented by the formula (II) is reacted with 1,2,4-triazole represented by the following formula (III) or imidazole in the presence of a diluent, the following general formula ( The target tricyclic azole derivative is obtained via an intermediate consisting of the compound represented by IV).

(A in the above formulas has the same meaning as described above, and M represents a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal).

That is, by reacting the compound represented by the general formula (IV) with a base in the presence of a diluent, or by prolonging the reaction time without isolating the compound from the reaction system, the compound represented by the general formula (I ) Can be obtained.

The oxirane derivative having the formula (II) used as a starting material here is obtained by reacting a ketone represented by the following formula (V) with, for example, dimethyloxosulfonium methylide or dimethylsulfonium methylide in the presence of a diluent. It is obtained by

Incidentally, the ketone represented by the above formula (V) is 4-chloro-corresponding to 2-alkoxycarbonylcyclopentanone.
From 2-fluorobenzyl halide, "organic
Synthesis "(Org.Syn.) 45, 7 ( 1965), " journal of Chemical Sosaetei "(J.Chem.Soc.), (1
950), 325 and "Journal of Organic
Chemistry ”(J. Org. Chem.) 33 , 3425 (1958), or from 4-chloro-2-fluorobenzyl halide corresponding to the enamine of cyclopentanone. ["Bretan of the Chemical Society of Japan" (Bul
l.Chem.Soc.Japan), 45 , 1140 (1972), "Journal of Pharmaceutical Science" (J.Pharm.
Sci.), 68 , 1501 (1979)].

Diluents used in the above-mentioned production method according to the present invention include hydrocarbons such as benzene, toluene, xylene, hexane; halogenated hydrocarbons such as methylene chloride, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride; alcohols such as methanol and ethanol. Ethers such as diethyl ether, diisopropyl ether, and tetrahydrofuran; and other examples include acetonitrile, acetone, dimethylformamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and the like.

In the production method according to the present invention, as described above, in order to promote the reaction of the compound of the formula (IV) formed as an intermediate by the reaction into the target tricyclic azole derivative, in addition to the diluent, The reaction may be carried out in the presence of a base.
Examples of the base used here include carbonates of alkali metals such as sodium carbonate and potassium carbonate; hydroxides of alkali metals such as sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide; sodium methylate, sodium ethylate, potassium tert-butylate, etc. Examples thereof include alkali metal alcoholates, alkali metal hydrides such as sodium hydride and potassium hydride, and triethylamine and pyridine.

In order to carry out the production method according to the present invention, for example, the azole represented by the general formula (III) is dissolved in the above-mentioned diluent, and if necessary, in the presence of the above-mentioned base, the above-mentioned general It is advisable to add 0.5 to 1.0 equivalent of the oxirane represented by the formula (II), or conversely, to a solution obtained by dissolving the oxirane in a diluent and to add the alkali metal salt of the azole to react.

The reaction temperature at this time may be any temperature from the freezing point to the boiling point of the diluent as a solvent, but in practice it is preferable to carry out the reaction at a temperature in the range of 0 to 100 ° C. The reaction time is in the range of 1 to 3 hours, and the reaction is preferably performed with stirring.

After the completion of the above reaction, after cooling the reaction mixture obtained by the reaction, ethyl acetate, chloroform, in ice water,
Separate the organic layer by extracting with an organic solvent such as benzene,
Then, the organic layer is washed with water and dried, the solvent is distilled off under reduced pressure, and the obtained residue is subjected to purification treatment to obtain the target compound. The purification treatment can be performed by recrystallization, silica gel column chromatography or the like.

Next, the usefulness of the tricyclic azole derivative having the general formula (I) according to the present invention as an active ingredient of an agricultural and horticultural fungicide will be described.

The above-mentioned tricyclic azole derivative exhibits an excellent controlling effect against a wide range of plant diseases shown below.

Rice blast (Pyricularia oryzae), rice sesame leaf blight (Cochliobolus miyabeanus), rice white leaf blight (X
anthomonas oryzae), rice blight (Rhizoctonia sol)
ani), a small black rot of rice (Helminthosporium sigmoide)
um), rice scabbard disease (Gibberella fujikuroi), apple powdery mildew (Podosphaera lencotricha), apple scab (Venturia inaequalis), apple morinia (Sclerotinia mali), apple leaf scab (Alternaria).
mali), apple rot (Valsa mali), pear black spot (Al-ternaria kikuchiana), pear powdery mildew (Ph)
yl-lactinia pyri), Pear scab (Gymnosporangium)
haraeonum), pear scab (Venturia nashicola),
Powdery mildew of grapes (Unccinula necator), Rust of grapes (Phakospora ampelopsidis), Powdery mildew of barley (Erysiphe graminis f.sp hordei), Cloudy disease of barley (Rhynchosporium secalis), Black rust of wheat (Pnccinia graminis). ), Barley stripe rust (Pnc
cinia triformis), wheat leaf rust (Pnccinia reco)
ndita), wheat leaf blight (Septoria trtitici), wheat stripe rust (Puccinia tritomis), wheat powdery mildew (Erysiphe graminis f.sp.tritici), corn powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea), watermelon Fusarium oxysporum, powdery mildew on tomato (Erys
iphe cichoracearum), tomato ring spot (Alternaria s)
olani), powdery mildew of eggplant (Erysiphe cichoracearu
m), powdery mildew of strawberry (Sephaerotheca humuli),
Tobacco powdery mildew (Erysiphe cichoracearum), tobacco scab (Alternaria longipes), sugar beet brown spot (Cercospora beticola), and potato dwarf (Alt)
ernaria solani), soybean leaf spot (Septoria glycine)
s), soybean purpura (Cercospora kikuchii), drupe (Sclerotinia cinerea) of drupe fruit trees, Botrytis cinerea (Sclerotinia cinerea), sclerotial disease (Scle)
rotinia sclerotiorum) and the like.

The tricyclic azole derivative according to the present invention has not only a preventive control effect but also a therapeutic effect against some of the plant diseases listed above.

To apply the compound of the tricyclic azole derivative represented by the general formula (I) as an agricultural and horticultural fungicide, the compound as it is or as a mixture with a carrier (diluent) is powder, wettable powder, granules. It can be advantageously used in the form of agents, emulsions, solutions and the like. Further, it is of course possible to further enhance the effect by chlorinating an auxiliary agent such as a spreading agent, an emulsifying agent, a wetting agent, and a fixing agent in addition to the above carrier, if necessary.

Incidentally, since the present compound contains a 1,2,4-triazole ring or an imidazole ring, it can be used in the form of an inorganic acid salt, an organic acid salt, a metal complex salt or the like.

In addition, since the present compound has asymmetric carbons at the 3-position, 3a-position, and 9a-position of the tricyclic skeleton, stereoisomers such as cis- and trans-isomers and optical isomers exist. Get, but
The present invention includes all these individual isomers as well as a mixture of each isomer in any ratio.

Therefore, it should be understood that the agricultural and horticultural fungicides according to the present invention include those containing, as an active ingredient, these isomers alone or as a mixture.

Examples and Effects The effects will be described below with reference to specific production methods of the tricyclic azole derivatives according to the present invention and specific examples of agricultural and horticultural fungicides using the derivatives as active ingredients.

Example 1 This example shows a production example of the tricyclic azole derivative represented by the general formula (I) for the compound of No. 1 in Table 1 above.

3,3-Dimethyl-6-chloro-1,2,3,3a, 9,9a-hexahydro-3a- (1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-ylmethyl) cyclopenta [b] [1]- Preparation of benzopyrazone 30 ml of anhydrous dimethylformamide was added to sodium hydride (60
% Oily sodium hydride washed with anhydrous benzene) 670 mg under a helium atmosphere with stirring,
Next, 1.8 g of 1H-1,2,4-triazole was added thereto, and the mixture was stirred at room temperature until foaming stopped. In the resulting solution, 4,
A solution of 5.00 g of 4-dimethyl-7- (2-fluoro-4-chlorobenzyl) -1-oxaspiro [2,4] heptane in 10 ml of anhydrous dimethylformamide was added dropwise, and the mixture was stirred at 70 ° C for 10 hours. did.

The obtained reaction mixture was allowed to cool, then poured into ice water and extracted with ethyl acetate to obtain an organic layer. The organic layer was washed with water, dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate, and then the solvent was distilled off under reduced pressure. did.

The obtained residue was purified by silica gel column chromatography to obtain 3.7 g of the title compound.

The results of measuring the physical properties of this compound are shown below. The NMR spectrum was measured using TMS as an internal standard, and is shown by the following symbols.

s: singlet d: doublet m: multiplet b: broad line J: a coupling constant (unit Hz) IR (KBr method): Vmax 3060,2940,1595,1570, 1480,1130,1020,840, 740cm - ¹ NMR (CDCl ₃ , ppm): δ 0.80 (s, 3H), 1.12 (s, 3
H), 1.12 to 3.07 (m, 7H), 4.17 (d, 1H, J = 14), 4.43 (d, 1H, J = 14), 6.73 (b, 3H), 8.70 (s, 1)
H), 8.83 (s, 1H) Next, formulation examples (Examples 2 to 5) of the fungicide for agricultural and horticultural use according to the present invention and plant disease control effects (Examples 6 to 8) are shown.

Example 2: Dust Part by weight Compound of the present invention (Compound No. 1 in Table 1) 3 Clay 40 Talc 57 is ground and mixed and used as a powder.

Example 3: Wettable powder (parts by weight) Compound of the present invention (Compound No. 1 in Table 1) 50 Lignin sulfonate 5 Alkyl sulfonate 3 Diatomaceous earth 42 is pulverized and mixed to be used as a wettable powder diluted with water.

Example 4: Granules Part by weight Compound of the present invention (Compound No. 1 in Table 1) 5 Bentonite 43 Clay 45 Lignin sulfonate 7 is uniformly mixed and further kneaded by adding water, and processed into granules by an extrusion granulator. Dry to make granules.

Example 5: Emulsion parts by weight Compound of the present invention (Compound No. 2 in Table 1) 30 Polyoxyethylene alkyl allyl ether 10 Polyoxyethylene sorbitan monolaurate 3 Xylene 57 is uniformly mixed and dissolved to prepare an emulsion.

Example 6 Wheat leaf rust control test A seedling wheat (cultivar; Norin 64, 64 / pot) seedlings at the time of the second true leaf cultivated in a biscuit pot with a diameter of 10 cm was applied to the wettable powder form shown in Example 3. The product was diluted and suspended with water to a predetermined concentration and sprayed at a rate of 5 ml / pot. After air-drying the sprayed leaves, a suspension of wheat red rust fungal spores collected from scab was spray-inoculated and kept under high humidity conditions at 20-23 ° C for 24 hours. Then leave it in the gas greenhouse,
Seven to ten days after the inoculation, the scab severity was investigated for 10 plants according to the following survey criteria, and the control value was calculated from the average scab severity per leaf by the following formula.

(Survey Criteria) Disease severity 0 Disease-free 0.5 Lesion area less than 10% 1 Lesion area 10% to less than 20% 2 Lesion area 20% to less than 40% 3 Lesion Area 40% or more and less than 60% 4 Lesion area 60% or more and less than 80% 5 Lesion area 80% or more The results are shown in Table 2. Example 7 Wheat Powdery Mildew Control Effect Test To the second leaf stage seedling wheat (cultivar; Norin No. 64, 16 plants / pot, 3 pots / treatment group used), which was cultivated in a biscuit pot with a diameter of 10 cm,
The wettable powder form as in Example 3 was diluted and suspended in water to a predetermined concentration and sprayed in an amount of 5 ml per pot. After air-drying the sprayed leaves, a suspension of the summer spores of wheat powdery mildew fungus collected from the scab was spray-inoculated, kept under high humidity at 20 to 24 ° C for 24 hours, and then left in the greenhouse. On the 9th to 11th day after the inoculation, the disease degree was investigated according to the following investigation criteria, and the control value was calculated by the following formula.

(Survey Criteria) Disease severity 0 Disease-free 0.5 Lesion area less than 10% 1 Lesion area 10% to less than 20% 2 Lesion area 20% to less than 40% 3 Lesion Area 40% or more and less than 60% 4 Lesion area 60% or more and less than 80% 5 Lesion area 80% or more The results are shown in Table 3. Example 8 Antibacterial Test Against Various Pathogenic Bacteria This example shows the results of testing the antibacterial properties of various compounds of the tricyclic azole derivative according to the present invention against various plant pathogenic bacteria.

Test method: The compound of the present invention was adjusted to a predetermined concentration by using Dimethyl Sul
Dissolve in foxide, 0.6 ml and 60 ml of PAS medium at 60 ° C
Was mixed well in a 100 ml Erlenmeyer flask and poured into a dish to solidify. On the other hand, the test bacteria previously cultivated on the plate medium were removed with a cork borer having a diameter of 4 mm and inoculated on the above drug-containing plate medium. After inoculation, the cells were tube-cultured for 1 to 3 days at a suitable growth temperature for each bacterium. The growth of the fungus was measured by the fungal diameter, and compared with the growth of the fungus in the drug-free area, the inhibitory rate of hyphal elongation was calculated according to the following formula.

R = (dc-dt) 100 / dc where R = hyphal elongation inhibition rate (%) dc = diameter of untreated plate on fungal plate dt = diameter of drug-treated plate on plate.

The results are shown in Table 4 according to the following criteria.

Growth inhibition rate 5 Hyphal elongation inhibition rate of 100-90% 4 Hyphal elongation inhibition rate of 89-70% 3 Hyphal elongation inhibition rate of 69-40% 2 Hyphal elongation inhibition rate of 39-20% Thing 1 The hyphal elongation inhibition rate is 19% or less

[Brief description of drawings]

The attached FIGS. 1 and 2 show ^I H-NMR absorption spectra of the compounds of Nos. 1 and 2 shown in Table 1 in the text, respectively.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A general formula (I) (In the formula, A represents a nitrogen atom or CH), which is a tricyclic azole derivative. 2. General formula (II) And an oxirane derivative represented by the following general formula (III) (Wherein M represents a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal, A represents a nitrogen atom or CH), and the compound is reacted with 1,2,4-triazole or imidazole represented by the general formula (I) (In the formula, A represents a nitrogen atom or CH) A method for producing a tricyclic azole derivative. 3. General formula (I) A fungicide for agricultural and horticultural use containing a tricyclic azole derivative represented by the formula (wherein A represents a nitrogen atom or CH) as an active ingredient.