Clethodim

Developed by Chevron Chemical Company in the United States in 1987. Clethodim is a herbicide for stems and leaves. It is a highly effective, safe and highly selective ACCase inhibitor. It is effective for most annual and perennial gramineous weed and is safe for dicotyledonous crops.

The Clethodim TC is an amber transparent liquid. The relative density of 1.15 (20 ° C), vapor pressure of 1.3 × 10Pa (20 ° C), and it is soluble in a variety of organic solvents, unstable in light,it is easy to decompose.

Its synthetic technology usecrotonaldehyde, ethanethiol, methyl acetoacetate, dimethyl malonate and propionyl chloride. After etherification, sodium salt synthesis, heptene synthesis, cyclization and acylation , rearrangement, hydrolysis, decarboxylation and deuteratio