Fate and kinetics of carfentrazone-ethyl herbicide in California, USA, flooded rice fields.
Little is known of the environmental fate of the aryltriazolinone herbicide carfentrazone-ethyl (compound I). Rice field applications of Shark 40D commercial formulation to duplicate 5.7 m2 rings (119 g a.i./ha) and 464 m2 commercial basins (224 g a.i./ha) produced pseudo-first-order half-lives (t1/2) of 6.5 to 11.1 h in water and 37.9 to 174 h in sediment. The rapid dissipation from water was due to its hydrolysis to the chloropropionic acid (compound II), which further degraded to its propionic, cinnamic, and benzoic acids. Compound I degraded similarly in soil, but propionic and cinnamic acid levels were higher. Compound I was only weakly adsorbed, but lateral movement of compound II through soil occurred. Laboratory hydrolysis produced quantitative yields of compound II, t1/2 values of 131 h at pH 7 and 3.36 h at pH 9, and slow dissipation at pH 5 (43% at 830 h). Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation of compound I in pH 7 buffer gave dissipation rates similar to those in dark controls (t1/2 113 h vs 128 h), while compound II was comparatively stable to photolysis (t1/2 765 h) and also did not volatilize from water. Ester hydrolysis followed by off-site movement of the acid (compound II) account for the dissipation of compound I.
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D000383:Agriculture; D002140:California; D006540:Herbicides / Q000737:chemistry*; D006868:Hydrolysis; D007700:Kinetics; D012275:Oryza; D010782:Photolysis; D011422:Propionates / Q000737:chemistry; D012989:Soil Pollutants; D014230:Triazoles / Q000737:chemistry*; D014835:Volatilization; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical
D006540:Herbicides; D011422:Propionates; D012989:Soil Pollutants; D014230:Triazoles; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; C427526:carfentrazone-ethyl