Bentazon - Una descripción general | Temas de ciencias

Description

Bentazon is unique under these herbicides because it is the only compound that bears a sulfonyl group. A puzzle that is not solved yet is that bentazone is an excellent herbicide but has a very low pI50-value.

Chemical Properties: 

Bentazon is a colorless to white crystalline powder.

Uses

Herbicide.

Uses Selective, contact, postemergence herbicide used to control a variety of annual and perennial broad-leaved weeds in most grass and legume crops.

Definition

ChEBI: A benzothiadiazine that is 1H-2,1,3-benzothiadiazin-4(3H)-one 2,2-dioxide substituted by an isopropyl group at position 3.

Agricultural Uses

Selective post-emergent herbicide: A post-emergence herbicide used to control broadleaf weeds in crops such as beans, corn, mint, soybeans, rice, and peanuts. All products formerly marketed in the U.S. contain the sodium salt of bentazon as the active ingredient, referred to as sodium bentazon. Also used in selective post-emergent control of broadlelaf weeds and sedges in alfalfa, asparagus, cereals, clover, digitalis, dry peas, flax, garlic, grasses, green lima beans, mint, onions, potatoes, snap beans for seed, sorghum, soybeans and sugarcane. Not currently registered in the U.S. It is reported to be used in most European countries.