Book review: All knowleadge you need to know about new researches and findings of crop protection products

The new book‘Recent Highlights in the Discovery and Optimization of Crop Protection Products’, based on key presentations given at the 14th International IUPAC conference on Crop Protection, May 19-24, 2019 in Ghent, Belgium, highlights the most prominent, recent results in the search for safe and effective new crop protection products. The book was edited by Peter Maienfisch and Sven Mangelinckx.

With a focus on the design, synthesis, optimization and/or structure-activity relationships of new chemistries targeting insect, disease, weed, nematode, vector and animal parasite control, the book also includes recent developments in crop enhancement chemistries and new approaches to crop protection products. The inclusion of information on testing tools, green chemistry approaches, and the latest discovery tools, like modeling, structure-based design, and testing tools makes this volume complete.

This book includes the many exciting new discoveries and findings reported. It is designed to inspire additional research and advancement in the field. We recommend scientists (chemists, biochemists, biologists, molecular modelers, R&D managers) focused on crop protection and graduate students in the above read it.

Know more details in Elsevier.

About the Editors

Peter Maienfisch

Peter Maienfisch is founder and owner of CreInSol MCB, honorary professor at the East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China and lecturer at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Previously he held various management positions in crop protection research and development at Ciba, Novartis and Syngenta, most recently as Research Portfolio Manager Insect Control & Seedcare at Syngenta Crop Protection AG in Switzerland (until April 2020). His track record of innovation and successful introduction of new technologies includes the authorship of more than 200 scientific papers and patents, the invention of Thiamethoxam (Actara®, Cruiser®), one of the leading insecticides worldwide, and major contributions to the discovery of several new active ingredients currently in worldwide development, such as spiropidion, isocycloseram, cyclobutrifluram and a malaria vector control agent. His scientific contributions also led to numerous invitations as speaker and/or co-organizer of many international congresses, including IUPAC Crop Protection congresses.

Sven Mangelinckx

Sven Mangelinckx is co-director of the SynBioC Research Group, Ghent University, Belgium. SynBioC is broadly active in the synthesis of medicinal and crop protection compounds, isolation of natural products, modification of bioresources, green chemistry, microreactor technology and chemical biology. He obtained a PhD in chemistry in 2006 at Ghent University. Afterwards, he was a postdoctoral fellow of the Scientific Research Fund of Flanders with a research stay at the RWTH Aachen, Germany and received the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award in 2013. Since 2013, he is professor at the Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, (co-)author of 100 scientific papers, >100 conference abstracts, and (co-)promoter of 16 PhD students. He has been acting as organic chemistry section editor of Molecules, co-chairman of Bioheterocycles 2019 and national chairman of the scientific committee of topic 3 ‘Discovery and Optimization of Crop Protection Products’ of the 14th International IUPAC Congress on Crop Protection.