Machette

Chemical properties

Yellow Oil

The Uses of Machette

Butachlor is a pre-emergent chloroacetanalide herbicide. Butachlor is commonly used for weed control in rice as well as cotton, maize, wheat and other crops.

The Uses of Machette

Pre-emergence selective anilide herbicide used to control grass and broad-leaved weeds in seeded and transplanted rice paddies.

Definition

ChEBI: Butachlor is an aromatic amide that is 2-choro-N-(2,6-diethylphenyl)acetamide in which the amide nitrogen has been replaced by a butoxymethyl group. It has a role as a herbicide, an environmental contaminant and a xenobiotic. It is an aromatic amide, an organochlorine compound and a tertiary carboxamide. It is functionally related to a N-phenylacetamide.

Hazard

Moderately toxic.

Agricultural Uses

Herbicide: Used for pre-emergence control of annual grasses, sedges and broadleaf weeds in rice crops. Used primarily in Asia, South America, Europe and Africa. Not registered for use in the U.S. Not approved for use in EU countries.

Trade name

BUTANEX®; BUTANOX®; CP 53619®; HILTACHLOR®; LAMBAST®; MACHETE®; MACHETTE®; PILLARSET®; RASAYANCHLOR®; WEEDOUT®; VENDAVAL®

Metabolic pathway

In vitro incubation of butachlor with rat liver fractions forms a considerable amount of glutathione conjugate, while the conjugating activity is not efficient for the kidney S9 fraction. Further biotransformation of the glutathione conjugate to mercapturate is not observed in the liver S9 fraction. Butachlor is initially conjugated with glutathione in the liver and is apparently transported to the kidneys where it is transformed to mercapturic acid.