Benfuresate

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Benfuresate
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEBI
ChEMBL
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EC Number
  • 270-925-4
KEGG
UNII
  • InChI=1S/C12H16O4S/c1-4-17(13,14)16-9-5-6-11-10(7-9)12(2,3)8-15-11/h5-7H,4,8H2,1-3H3
    Key: QGQSRQPXXMTJCM-UHFFFAOYSA-N
  • CCS(=O)(=O)OC1=CC2=C(C=C1)OCC2(C)C
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).

Benfuresate is a herbicide belonging to the group of benzofurans.[1]

Studies on zebrafish have shown that benfuresate inhibits embryonic growth in this species and can induce malformations. These findings underscore the risks that herbicide exposure poses to aquatic organisms.[1]

bulbous cypergrass

Uses

Benfuresate is widely used post-emergence to control grasses and weeds, for example in rice, fruit, bean, corn and sugarcane cultivation. Before crop emergence, it is applied to cotton and tobacco plants.[2]

Benfuresate controls cyperus rotundus in cotton. Young shoots appear to be more sensitive to benfuresate than the roots. While treatment of the leaves with benfuresate has little effect, it causes severe damage to the treated bud.[3]

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