Abstract: The present status of pesticide chemistry research is reviewed. The scope and limitation of research endeavors between pesticide chemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry are compared. The active areas of pesticide chemistry are considered to be botanical pesticides, pro-pesticides, chiral pesticides and intensive search of novel bio-active structures. Recently the latter has been orientated to hyper-active pesticides, bioregulators, elemento-organic pesticides and blended pesticides. An outlook of future development of pesticide chemistry research is also discussed.

Key words: pesticide, botanical pesticide, pro-pesticide, chiral pesticide, hyper-active pesticide, bioregulator, elemento-organic pesticide, blended pesticide