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diflufenican
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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.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C19H11F5N2O2
- Molecular weight
- 394.3 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- N-(2,4-difluorophenyl)-2-[3-(trifluoromethyl)phenoxy]pyridine-3-carboxamide
- SMILES
- C1=CC(=CC(=C1)OC2=C(C=CC=N2)C(=O)NC3=C(C=C(C=C3)F)F)C(F)(F)F
- InChIKey
- WYEHFWKAOXOVJD-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 4.6
- Polar surface area
- 51.2 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 1
- H-bond acceptors
- 8
- Formal charge
- 0
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Drug data · ChEMBL
- Molecule type
- Small molecule
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- chemical compound
- Mass
- 394.074069
- Has use
- herbicide
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- Commons category
- Diflufenican
- chemical formula
- C₁₉H₁₁F₅N₂O₂
- canonical SMILES
- C1=CC(=CC(=C1)OC2=C(C=CC=N2)C(=O)NC3=C(C=C(C=C3)F)F)C(F)(F)F
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Toxicology
- Environmental fate
- Effect and mechanism
- Regulations
- Applications
- List of targeted weeds
- List of co-used pesticides
- List of crops applied to
- Tradenames
- References
- External links
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.
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