Chemical name: Dinotefuran
Active ingredient content: ≥95%
IUPAC name: (RS)-1-methyl-2-nitro-3-(tetrahydro-3-furylmethyl)guanidine
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY :
Mol. wt. 202.2 M.f. C7H14N4O3 Form White crystalline solid. M.p. 107.5 °C B.p. Decomp. 208 °C V.p. <1.7 × 10-3 mPa (30 °C) Kow logP = –0.549 (25 °C) Henry 8.7 × 10-9 Pa m3 mol-1 (calc.) S.g./density 1.40 Solubility In water 39.8 g/l (20 °C). In hexane 9.0 × 10-6, heptane 11 × 10-6, xylene 72 × 10-3, toluene 150 × 10-3, dichloromethane 11, acetone 58, methanol 57, ethanol 19, ethyl acetate 5.2 (all in g/l, 20 °C). Stability Stable at 150 °C (DSC). Hydrolysis DT50 >1 y (pH 4, 7, 9). Photodegradation DT50 3.8 h (sterilised/natural water). pKa 12.6 (20 °C)
APPLICATIONS :
Biochemistry Agonist of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, affecting the synapses in the insect central nervous system. Mode of action Systemic insecticide with translaminar activity and with contact and stomach action. Readily taken up by the plant and further distributed acropetally
Uses: Controls a range of sucking insects, such as whiteflies, plant bugs, leafhoppers and mealybugs; Coleoptera, such as Colorado beetles and flea beetles; Diptera, such as leaf miner flies; and certain Lepidoptera, such as fruit moth, in vegetables, fruit, paddy rice and turf. Can be applied on foliage, soil, nursery boxes and to paddy water by spray, drench, broadcast and pricking-in-hole treatments.
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