Also known as 2',4'-Difluoro-2-(alpha,alpha,alpha-trifluoro-m-tolyloxy)nicotinanilide
Diflufenican (sometimes called DFF) is a herbicide used to control weeds including wild radish and wild turnip weeds or suppress capeweed, crassula, marshmallow or shepherd's purse, in clover pasture, lupins, lentils or field peas.
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Diflufenican (sometimes called DFF) is a herbicide used to control weeds including wild radish and wild turnip weeds or suppress capeweed, crassula, marshmallow or shepherd's purse, in clover pasture, lupins, lentils or field peas.
== Discovery == Diflufenican was discovered with a common intermediate method (CIM), and trialled in England and France between 1981 and 1983. A simple intermediate is reacted and recombined. Diflufenican derives from 2-chloronicotinic acid, one product replaced the chlorine with a phenoxy group, one receives an aniline group, and then both are recombined into DFF.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).