Synthesis of Some Novel Methoxyacrylates and Their Biological Activities

Methoxyacrylate fungicides which came from natural product have an excellent,broad spectrum of activities, highly safety and selective to target because of their unique mode of action-inhibit mitochonidrial respiration by blocking electron transfer between cytochrome b and cytochrome c₁, so more attention was paid by many companies in agrochemicals and at least 300 patents was applied until now. For the action of blocking electron transfer,some one suggests this kind of chemicals should not only work on fungi,but also on insects (sure) and weeds. Up to now,no herbicidal activity was reported. So the following compounds Ⅰ (X=O,NR,in patent:X=O,S rarely X=N) were designed and synthesized by introduced some fragment of herbicide.