Appearance is yellow solid. Soluble in various organic solvents and insoluble in water.
Cycloxydim is used for the control of annual and perennial grass weeds such as cotton, rape, soybean, potato and vegetable and other broad-leaved crops such as wild oats, ryegrass and ryegrass.
Cycloxydim was prepared by reacting butyryl chloride reacts with 5-(thian-3-yl)-cyclohexan-1,3-dione and ethoxyamine hydrochloride in ethanol.
ChEBI: Cycloxydim is a beta-diketone that is cyclohexa-1,3-dione which is substituted at position 2 by an N-ethoxybutanimidoyl group and at position 5 by a tetrahydro-2H-thiopyran-3-yl group. A systemic herbicide effective against grasses, it is used in the cultivation of a variety of crops, including oil seed rape and potatoes. It has a role as an EC 6.4.1.2 (acetyl-CoA carboxylase) inhibitor, a herbicide, an agrochemical and a fatty acid synthesis inhibitor. It is an organosulfur heterocyclic compound, an oxime O-ether, a beta-diketone and an enol.
