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Usage

Uses

Used in Agricultural Industry:
Dicofol is used as a pesticide for controlling mites and insects on various crops such as citrus fruits, cotton, and vegetables. Its application in this industry is due to its effectiveness in managing pests that can damage and reduce the yield of these crops.
However, it is important to note that Dicofol has been identified as a potential endocrine disruptor with detrimental effects on both the environment and human health. It has been classified as a persistent organic pollutant (POP) and is regulated under the Stockholm Convention. Consequently, its use is being phased out in many places, and safer alternatives are being sought for agricultural pest control.

InChI:InChI=1/C14H11Cl3/c15-12-8-6-11(7-9-12)13(14(16)17)10-4-2-1-3-5-10/h1-9,13-14H

Upstream product

• 2612-36-4 2,2-dichloro-1-phenylethanol 
• 108-90-7 chlorobenzene 
• 72-54-8 1,1-Dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane 
• 50-29-3 p,p'-DDT 
• 100-52-7 benzaldehyde 
• 67-56-1 methanol 
• 2387-16-8 1,1-dichloro-2,2-diphenylethane 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Facile and catalytic degradation method of DDT using Pd/C-Et3N system under ambient pressure and temperature

The catalytic degradation method of p,p′-DDT [1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethane] and its regioisomer o,p′-DDT [1,1,1-trichloro-2-(o-chlorophenyl)-2-(p-chlorophenyl)ethane] using the Pd/C-Et3N system under ambient hydrogen pressure and temperature was established. The presence of Et3N was necessary for the quick and complete breakdown of DDT. The independent degradation study of two intermediates, p,p′-DDD [2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)-1,1-dichloroethane] and p,p′-DDE [2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)-1,1-dichloroethylene] using GC-MS let us to speculate the degradation pathway of p,p′-DDT. In the initial phase of the reaction, p,p′-DDT degradation splits into two ways: a dehydrochlorination pathway and a hydrodechlorination pathway. In each pathway, reaction starts from an aliphatic moiety and subsequent hydrodechlorination from the benzene moieties takes place in a stepwise manner. The former pathway leads to the formation of 1,1-diphenylethane and the latter leads to the formation of 1,1-dichloro-2,2-diphenylethane. These diphenylethane analogs, which are less toxic compared with p,p′-DDT, are terminal degradation products in our system. The distinctive features of our catalytic degradation method of DDTs are reliability, simplicity, efficiency, and inexpensiveness.

PULSE MICROREACTOR PESTICIDES HYDRODECHLORINATION

Catalytic hydrodechlorination of chlorinated pesticides and other environmentally chlorinated materials into lower chlorine content compounds has been studied in a pulse microreactor .Chlorine can be catalytically removed and replaced by hydrogen to prduce partially chlorinated intermediates as well as completely dechlorinated hydrocarbons.Intermediates are equivalent to some of those obtained by natural degradation.The pulse microreactor is a simple technique to predict both product composition and reaction severity required for laboratory scale preparation of such degradation products.