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Photodegradation of diafenthiuron in water.

Pest management science (2002-05-10)
Young-Soo Keum, Jeong-Han Kim, Yong-Whan Kim, Kyun Kim, Qing X Li
ABSTRACT

Diafenthiuron, 1-tert-butyl-3-(2,6-di-isopropyl-4-phenoxyphenyl)thiourea, is an effective insecticide and acaricide. Sunlight degradation of diafenthiuron in various aqueous solutions and pure hexane yielded two major identified products: 1-tert-butyl-3-(2,6-di-isopropyl-4-phenoxyphenyl)-carbodiimide (CGA-140,408) and 1-tert-butyl-3-(2,6-di-isopropyl-4-phenoxy-phenyl)urea (CGA-177,960). CGA-140,408 was further photo-transformed into CGA-177,960 by sunlight. Direct photolysis appeared to be a major photolysis pathway of diafenthiuron in the environment. Photodegradation of CGA-140,408 and CGA-177,960 was enhanced in humic acid water, paddy water and aqueous acetone solutions, and followed first-order kinetics. Isopropanol (a radical quencher) and de-aeration strongly inhibited the photolysis of these chemicals, which suggested oxygen radical-mediated reactions.

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Diafenthiuron, PESTANAL®, analytical standard
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