butralin
Sign in to saveButralin is a preëmergent herbicide used to control suckers on tobacco in the United States, Australia, Mozambique and, for food crops also, China. It is a dinitroaniline, first registered in the US in 1976. It was used in the EU until a ban in 2009 due to its ecotoxicity.
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- 295.153
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- Butralin
- chemical formula
- C₁₄H₂₁N₃O₄
- canonical SMILES
- CCC(C)NC1=C(C=C(C=C1[N+](=O)[O-])C(C)(C)C)[N+](=O)[O-]
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Butralin is a preëmergent herbicide used to control suckers on tobacco in the United States, Australia, Mozambique and, for food crops also, China. It is a dinitroaniline, first registered in the US in 1976. It was used in the EU until a ban in 2009 due to its ecotoxicity.
== Mode of action and effects == Butralin works by the HRAC mode of action Group D / K1 / 3, (Australian, Global, Numeric respectively), which involves inhibition of microtubule formation, by binding to tubulin, halting growth, and causing depolymerization.