Mepronil
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| Surname | Mepronil | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Molecular formula | C 17 H 19 NO 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Brief description |
colorless crystals |
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| Molar mass | 269.34 g mol −1 | ||||||||||||||||||
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firmly |
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| density |
1.11 g cm −3 |
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| Melting point |
91.4 ° C |
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| solubility |
practically insoluble in water (12.7 mg l −1 at 20 ° C) |
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| As far as possible and customary, SI units are used. Unless otherwise noted, the data given apply to standard conditions . | |||||||||||||||||||
Mepronil is a chemical compound from the group of benzanilides . The compound was introduced by Kumiai Chemical Industry as a fungicide .
Extraction and presentation
Mepronil can be prepared by reaction of 2-methylbenzyl chloride and m -Isopropoxyanilin ( m -aminophenol + isopropyl ) are obtained.
use
Mepronil is used against rice blight , Sclerotium rolfsii , plum rust , Rhizoctonia solani and other harmful fungi.
Mepronil is one of the succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors and has never achieved great market importance.
Admission
No plant protection products containing this active ingredient are permitted in the EU or Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Entry on Mepronil in the Pesticide Properties DataBase (PPDB) of the University of Hertfordshire , accessed on December 15, 2014.
- ↑ a b Safety data sheet according to 1907/2006 / EC, Article 31. (PDF) In: LGC Standards GmbH. January 4, 2018, accessed on July 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Thomas A. Unger: Pesticide Synthesis Handbook . William Andrew, 1996, ISBN 0-8155-1853-6 , pp. 33 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Crop Protection Handbook 2014 . 100th edition. MeisterPro, Willoughby, Ohio 2014, pp. 401 .
- ↑ CQ Zhang, YH Liu, XY Ma, Z. Feng, ZH Ma: Characterization of sensitivity of Rhizoctonia solani , causing rice sheath blight, to mepronil and boscalid . In: Crop Protection . tape 28 , no. 5 , May 2009, p. 381-386 , doi : 10.1016 / j.cropro.2008.12.004 ( PDF ).
- ^ Clemens Lamberth, Jürgen Dinges: Bioactive heterocyclic compound classes: Agrochemicals . Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-527-66441-2 , p. 175.
- ↑ Entry in the national registers of plant protection products in Switzerland , Austria and Germany ; accessed on March 26, 2016.