This invention relates to certain herbicidally active substituted diphenyl ether oxime derivatives, herbidical compositions of the same and the use thereof for preemergence and postermergence control of noxious plants, i.e., weeds.
Substituted benzyl carbamates of the formula ##STR1## in which: R is a member selected from the group consisting of halogen, trifluoromethyl, cyano, NO.sub.2, C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 haloalkyloxy, phenoxy, pyridyloxy, and substituted phenoxy and substituted pyridyloxy substituted with one or more members of the group consisting of halogen and trifluoromethyl; R.sub.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl; and R.sub.2 is a member selected from the group consisting of pyridyl, phenyl and substituted pyridyl and substituted phenyl substituted with one or more of the group consisting of H, cyano, halogen,C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy and C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 haloalkyl; and their use as herbicides are disclosed herein.
