Shell Agricultural Chemical Company

Biological Sciences Research Center, Shell Agricultural Chemical Company, P.0. Box 4248, Modesto, CA 95352... 

Monsanto Agricultural Company, 368 Purdue University, 433 Ricerca, Inc., 199 Rohm and Haas Company, 318 Schering AG West Germany, 328 Shell Agricultural Chemical Company, 36,209,241,401 Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., 340 U.S. Department of Agriculture, 151,226,260,273,388,409,433,445 University of Arizona, 353 University of Maryland, 273 University of Minnesota, 141 Upjohn Company, 251... 

I. du Pont de Nemours Co., Wilmington, DE 19898 FMC Corporation, Princeton, NJ 08543 University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Shell Agricultural Chemical Company, Modesto, CA 95352 American Cyanamid, Princeton, NJ 08540... 

Pfizer Central Research, 283 Purdue University, 191 Shell Agricultural Chemical Company, 316 Shimane University, 83 Thames Polytechnic, 25 University of California, 2,71,316 University of Cambridge, 14 University of Maryland School of Medicine, 107 University of Missouri, 174 University of Toronto, 136 University of Waterloo, 202 Wellcome Research Laboratories, 262... 

Biological Sciences Research Center, Shell Agricultural Chemical Company,... 

Lehigh University, 469 Merck and Company, Inc., 469 Monsanto Agricultural Company, 195,300 Nippon Soda Company Ltd., 340 Nova Pharmaceutical Corporation, 469 Pennsylvania State University, 400 Rohm and Haas Company, 322,478 SOCAR AG, 226,506 Salutar, Inc., 527 Sandoz Crop Protection, 352 Shell Agricultural Chemical Conpany, 371 Universidad de Antioquia, 469 The Upjohn Company, 422 U.S. Department of Agriculture, 32,10, 247,255,269,278,413,491... 

The corporate paths of learning of two other prewar first movers—Shell and Phillips—were similar to that of Jersey Standard and defined the boundaries of these enterprises in a comparable manner. A third prewar first mover, Standard Oil of California, followed a somewhat different path by expanding its earlier move into agricultural chemicals. In the following brief reviews, 1 make no attempt to list the end-products these companies delivered to the market. 

The initial entry of the oil and gas companies came in the 1920s when four competitors—Socal, Shell, Jersey Standard, and Phillips—began to produce chemicals. The first two commercialized agricultural chemicals. The other two, Jersey Standard and Phillips, concentrated on commercializing petroleum-based gasoline. However, it was the totally unpredictable and extraordinary demand of World War II that created the petroleum side of the polymer/petrochemical revolution. The four companies that had created their learning bases in the 1930s became the first movers in this new industry. 

Rutgers University, 42 Saitama University, 224 Shell Research, Ltd., 320 Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd., 224 U.S. Department of Agriculture, 118,364 Universitat Konstanz, Federal Republic of Germany, 407... 

The preparation and characterization of the VR and ESR liquid rubbers and of the two-phase epoxy thermosets were described in detail previously (3-6). DGEBA is a solid epoxy resin (Epon 825) from Shell Chemical Company. ESO and ELO are commercial products from Atochem. Samples of VO and crambe oil were obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. All other reagents and solvents were purchased from Aldrich Chemical Co. and Fisher Scientific Co. and used without additional purification. 

Use of D-D (approximately 35 percent 1,2-D) was subsequently suspended by the Del Norte County agricultural commissioner. Shell Chemical Company has since withdrawn D-D from the California market. 

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