Acetochlor

Common name 

Acetochlor

IUPAC name:

2-chloro-N-ethoxymethyl-6′-ethylacet-o-toluidide

Chemical Abstracts name

2-chloro-N-(ethoxymethyl)-N-(2-ethyl-6-methylphenyl)acetamide

CAS RN

34256-82-1

M.F.:

C₁₄H₂₀ClNO₂

APPLICATIONS 

Mode of action

Selective herbicide, absorbed mainly by the shoots and secondarily by the roots of germinating plants.

USES

Used pre-emergence or pre plant to control annual grasses, certain annual broad-leaved weeds and yellow nutsedge in maize (at 3 kg/ha), peanuts, soya beans, cotton, potatoes and sugar cane.

Formulation:

50%EC, 20%WP

Crop:

soybean, maize, cotton, peanut, tomato, suflower ect. Upland crop. Cruciferae , leguminosae vegetable, and Orchard.

Target:

Barnyardgrass, Setaria viridis, Digitaria sanguinalis, Dichotomanthes grass, Brachiaria grass, Chenopodium album, Amaranthus, portulace oleracea L.

Precautions:

1. Coleoptile are the main absorption site in weeds, apply before coleoptile unearthed, only soil treatment.

2. usage dose according to soil moisture and Soil organic matter content

3. Cucumber, spinach, wheat, Chinese chives, millet, sorghum and other crops more sensitive and should not be applied.

4. Rice seedling field can not be used, can be transplanted rice alone.

Packing details:

100ML ~200L for liquid formulations, 1G~25KG for solid formulations