Laboratory Tests of Synthetic Organic Compounds as Insecticides
- 1 February 1944
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Economic Entomology
- Vol. 37 (1) , 70-74
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/37.1.70
Abstract
82 synthetic organic compounds were tested against 5-9 spp. of insects to determine their effectiveness as insecticides. Of these compounds, 11 were found toxic to several or all of the spp., and a brief description is given of these results. The 3 most toxic compounds were 2-chloro-6-nitrotoluene, 4-chloro-2-nitrotoluene, and p-nitro-phenyl ester of acetic acid. Both of the chloronitrotoluene compounds were volatile and were toxic in vapor form.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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