The compounds are applied as herbicides in agriculture. They have the following common formula:IMAGE,where X stands for hydrogen, low alkyl, low alcoxy, dimethylamine, ciano- or nitrogen group, tiophen or halogen. The method allows condensation of 4,6,6-trimethyl-3-ciano-5,6-dihydro-2(1H)-pyridon with aromatic aldehydes with a formula X-C6H4CHO, in which X has the abovementioned meaning, in a solution of chloroform, in the presence of piperidin, at boiling and aseotropic distillation of water.
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