Abstract
Nitrogen heterocycles substituted in the 2-position by a nitro-methylene group are generally insecticidal. Affecting the level of activity principally are (1) the number and character of heteroatoms in the ring, (2) the ring size, and (3) the nature of substitution on (a) nitrogen, (b) the nitromethylene side chain, and (c) the ring carbons. The interplay of these structural variations results in compounds ranging from the inactive to the extraordinarily potent. The compound with highest activity to corn earworm, seventeen times that of parathion, is tetrahydro-2-(nitromethylene)-2H-1,3-thiazine.
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Soloway, S.B. et al. (1978). Nitromethylene Heterocycles as Insecticides. In: Shankland, D.L., Hollingworth, R.M., Smyth, T. (eds) Pesticide and Venom Neurotoxicity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8834-4_12
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