The Chiral Herbicide Beflubutamid (I): Isolation of Pure Enantiomers by HPLC, Herbicidal Activity of Enantiomers, and Analysis by Enantioselective GC-MS

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• 作者：Ignaz J. Buerge ; Astrid B盲chli ; Jean-Pierre De Joffrey ; Markus D. M眉ller ; Simon Spycher ; Thomas Poiger
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T)
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：July 2, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：47
• 期：13
• 页码：6806-6811
• 全文大小：319K
• 年卷期：v.47,no.13(July 2, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5851

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For many chiral pesticides, little information is available on the properties and fate of individual stereoisomers. A basic data set would, first of all, include stereoisomer-specific analytical methods and data on the biological activity of stereoisomers. The herbicide beflubutamid, which acts as an inhibitor of carotenoid biosynthesis, is currently marketed as racemate against dicotyledonous weeds in cereals. Here, we present analytical methods for enantiomer separation of beflubutamid and two metabolites based on chiral HPLC. These methods were used to assign the optical rotation and to prepare milligram quantities of the pure enantiomers for further characterization with respect to herbicidal activity. In addition, sensitive analytical methods were developed for enantiomer separation and quantification of beflubutamid and its metabolites at trace level, using chiral GC-MS. In miniaturized biotests with garden cress, (鈭?-beflubutamid showed at least 1000脳 higher herbicidal activity (EC₅₀, 0.50 渭M) than (+)-beflubutamid, as determined by analysis of chlorophyll a in 5-day-old leaves. The agricultural use of enantiopure (鈭?-beflubutamid rather than the racemic compound may therefore be advantageous from an environmental perspective. In further biotests, the (+)-enantiomer of the phenoxybutanoic acid metabolite showed effects on root growth, possibly via an auxin-type mode of action, but at 100脳 higher concentrations than the structurally related herbicide (+)-mecoprop.