Further Studies on Degradation of the Pyrethroid Insecticide Fenvalerate in Soils

MIKAMI Nobuyoshi, SAKATA Shinoi, YAMADA Hirohiko, MIYAMOTO Junshi

doi:10.1584/jpestics.9.697

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ピレスロイド系殺虫剤フェンバレレートの土壌中における分解
ピレスロイド系殺虫剤フェンバレレートの土壌中における分解〔英文〕
ピレスロイドケイサッチュウザイフェンバレレートノドジョウチュウニオ

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Studies of the degradation of the pyrethroid insecticide fenvalerate have been extended, using ¹⁴C preparations labeled separately at the chlorophenyl and benzyl rings. In two soils stored in the laboratory for up to 48 weeks under aerobic upland conditions, fenvalerate (1ppm) continued to be degraded to 0.03ppm and 0.29ppm by hydrolysis and oxidation with initial half-lives of 3 and 16 weeks. The major degradation route was hydrolysis at the ester linkage leading to the formation of 3-phenoxybenzoic acid and 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-methylbutyric acid. Both acids underwent further degradation via ring opening followed by mineralization of the products formed with the evolution of CO₂ (25-66%). In addition, α-carboxy-3-phenoxybenzyl 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-methylbutyrate was identified as a new degradation product. When soils containing radiolabeled bound residues arising from fenvalerate were mixed with fresh soils, between 18 and 28% of the radioactivity present as bound residues was mineralized to ¹⁴CO₂ over a 24-week period.

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Journal of Pesticide Science

Journal of Pesticide Science 9 (4), 697-702, 1984

Pesticide Science Society of Japan

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