In collaboration with Professor Tjeerdema’s environmental toxicology group at the University of California, Davis, we are synthesizing the potential biological and photolytic degradates of the herbicide Oxyfluorfen, a nitrodiphenyl ether herbicide designed to control broadleaf and grassy weeds in California rice fields. These degradation products will then be used as HPLC analysis standards at the UC Davis laboratory’s investigation of the environmental fate of oxyfluorfen in California rice fields. The synthesis of these degradates will be discussed here.

Synthesis of oxyfluorfen degradates

ACS Spring 2022

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.