Content: Trends in the synthesis and chemistry of agrochemicals / William K. Moberg, Don R. Baker, and Joseph G. Fenyes -- Discovery of the sulfonylurea herbicides / G. Levitt -- Plant biochemistry, environmental properties, and global impact of the sulfonylurea herbicides / Hugh M. Brown and Philip C. Kearney -- Synthesis and herbicidal activity of bicyclic sulfonylureas / Steven P. Artz, Bruce L. Finkelstein, Mary Ann Hanagan, M.P. Moon, Robert J. Pasteris, and Morris P. Rorer -- Synthesis of heterocyclic sulfonamides / John Cuomo, Stephen K. Gee, and Stephen L. Hartzell -- Heterocyclic amine precursors to sulfonylurea herbicides / W.T. Zimmerman, C.L. Hillemann, T.P. Selby, R. Shapiro, C.P. Tseng, and B.A. Wexler -- Synthesis and herbicidal activity of conformationally restricted butyrolactone sulfonylureas / Mark E. Thompson and Paul H. Liang -- A novel sulfonylurea herbicide for corn / Shigeo Murai, Takahiro Haga, Kan-ichi Fujikawa, Nobuyuki Sakashita, and Fumio Kimura -- Trifluoromethylpyridines as building blocks for new agrochemicals : discovery of a new turf herbicide / Takahiro Haga, Yasuhiro Tsujii, Kouji Hayashi, Fumio Kimura, Nobuyuki Sakashita, and Kan-ichi Fujikawa -- Synthesis and herbicidal activity of dihydropyrano [2,3-b] pyridylimidazolinones and related compounds / Shin-Shyong Tseng, Ravindar N. Girotra, Cynthia M. Cribbs, Diana Lori P. Sonntag, and Jerry L. Johnson -- Synthesis and herbicidal activity of pyrrolopyridylimidazolinones / John Finn, Nina Quinn, and Brad Buckman -- 1-Alkyl-5-cyano-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxamides : synthesis and herbicidal activity / Michael P. Lynch, James R. Beck, Eddie V.P. Tao, James Aikins, George E. Babbitt, John R. Rizzo, and T. William Waldrep -- Synthesis and biological activity of heteroalkyl analogues of the broadleaf herbicide isoxaben / R.S. Brinkmeyer, N.H. Terando, and T. William Waldrep -- Synthesis, herbicidal activity, and action mechanism of 2-aryl-1,2,4-triazine-3,5-diones / John W. Lyga, Blaik P. Halling, Debra A. Witkowski, Russell M. Patera, Judith A. Seeley, Marjorie J. Plummer, and Frederick W. Hotzman -- Hydroxyoxazolidinones and hydroxypyrrolidinones : new classes of herbicides / R.S. Brinkmeyer, T.W. Balko, N.H. Terando, T. William Waldrep, D.E. Dudley, and R.K. Mann -- Synthesis of a new class of pyridine herbicides / Len F. Lee, Gina L. Stikes, Jean E. Normansell, John M. Molyneaux, Larry Y.L. Sing, John P. Chupp, Scott K. Parrish, and John E. Kaufmann -- Synthesis and herbicidal activity of 1,X-naphthyridinyloxphenoxypropanoic acids / James A. Turner -- Synthesis of the new graminicide propaquizafop / R. Klaus, P. Kreienbühl, P. Schnurrenberger, J. Wenger, and P. Winternitz -- 2-(2'-Nitrophenyl)-1,3,4-oxadiazoles : synthesis and biological activity / Kirk A. Simmons, Blaik P. Halling, Robert J. Schmidt, and Debra A. Witkowski -- Synthetic transformations of acylcyclohexanediones / James E. Oliver, William R. Lusby, and Rolland M. Waters -- Chemical agents as regulators of biological responses in plants / H. Yokoyama and J.H. Keithly -- Glycerol ethers : synthesis, configuration analysis, and a brief review of their lipase-catalyzed reactions / Philip E. Sonnet -- Plant-growth-inhibiting properties of some 5-alkoxy-3-methyl-2(5H)-furanones related to strigol / A.B. Pepperman and H.G. Cutler -- Metabolic profiling of plants : a new diagnostic technique / Hubert Sauter, Manfred Lauer, and Hansjörg Fritsch -- Synthesis of structurally related commercial carbamate herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides / John J. D'Amico and Frederic G. Bollinger -- New selective systemic aphicides / Richard M. Jacobson and M. Thriugnanam -- Stereoselective synthesis and acaricidal activity of novel thiazolidinones / Isamu Kasahara, Nobuo Matsui, Tomio Yamada, Minoru Kaeriyama, and Keiichi Ishimitsu -- Analogues of [alpha]-terthienyl as light-activated miticides / D.M. Roush, K.A. Lutomski, R.B. Phillips, and S.E. Burkart -- 2,2';5',2"-terthiophene and heteroarene analogues as potential novel pesticides / Kingmo Sun, Kurt H. Pilgram, Dan A. Kleier, Mark E. Schroeder, and Alex Y.S. Yang -- A new phosphoramidothioate insecticide and nematicide / Tohru Koyanagi, Hiroshi Okada, Tadaaki Toki, Takahiro Haga, Kan-ichi Fujikawa, and Ryuzo Nishiyama -- Rational approach to glucose taste chemoreceptor inhibitors as novel insect antifeedants / Patrick Yuk-Sun Lam and James L. Frazier -- Isolation, identification, and synthesis of 2-acyl-3,6-dihydroxycyclohex-2-ene-1-ones / William R. Lusby, James E. Oliver, and John W. Neal, Jr. -- Total synthesis of avermectin and milbemycin analogues / G.I. Kornis, M.F. Clothier, S.J. Nelson, F.E. Dutton, and S.A. Mizsak -- Milbemycin H analogue synthesis / S.R. Schow, M.E. Schnee, and J.J. Rauh -- Contributions to soil insecticide performance by perfluorinated alkyl carboxanilide isomers / R.P. Gajewski, G.D. Thompson, E.H. Chio, C.A. Alt, D.F. Berard, S.J. Glass, J.H. Kennedy, R.L. Robey, and R.B.L. van Lier -- Synthesis and insecticidal activity of 4-phenyltetrafluoroethoxybenzoylureas / J.A. Dixson, E.L. Plummer, R.M. Kral, and D.E. Seelye -- Arylcholine carbonates and aryl-3,3-dimethyl-1-butyl carbonates as inhibitors and inactivators of acetylcholinesterase / Nancy J. Brenner, Ned D. Heindel, Michele R. Levy, Venkataraman Balasubramanian, Miguel Turizo, and H. Donald Burns -- 1,2-Diacyl-1-alkylhydrazines : a new class of insect growth regulators / Adam Chi-Tung Hsu -- Sex pheromone blend of the tobacco hornworm : identification and stereoselective synthesis / Robert E. Doolittle, James H. Tumlinson, Annette Brabham, Margaret M. Brennan, and Everett R. Mitchell -- Synthesis of novel pyridine fungicides / F. Dorn, A. Pfiffner, and M. Schlageter -- Synthesis and fungicidal properties of cyclic tertiary amines / Christopher J. Urch -- Structure-activity relationships of haloalkylpyridazines : a new class of systemic fungicides / Ronald E. Hackler, Wendell R. Arnold, William C. Dow, George W. Johnson, and Sylvester V. Kaster -- Novel agents for the control of cereal and grape powdery mildew : synthesis and investigation of 4-phenoxyquinolines / Michael J. Coghlan, Eriks V. Krumkalns, Blake A. Caley, Harold R. Hall, and Wendell R. Arnold -- Synthesis and fungicidal activity of 4-phenethylaminoquinoline and its analogues and derivatives / Barry A. Dreikorn, Glen P. Jourdan, L. Navelle Davis, Robert G. Suhr, Harold R. Hall, and Wendell R. Arnold -- Synthesis and fungicidal activity of 1H-inden-1-ones / Glen P. Jourdan, Barry A. Dreikorn, Ronald E. Hackler, Harold R. Hall, and Wendell R. Arnold -- Influence of atropisomerism on the fungicidal activity of a series of thioalkylphenylalanines / Barry A. Dreikorn, Glen P. Jourdan, and Harold R. Hall.