Chemical Properties
White crystalline powder
Application
Cyromazine is an insect growth regulator, used to control fly larvae in livestock and poultry manure. It can be fed directly to livestock or applied directly to fly breeding sites. Cyromazine also exhibits systemic activity and is used as a foliar spray to control leaf miners in vegetables, potatoes, etc., and on mushrooms.
Uses
acaricide, insecticide, ectoparisitide
Uses
Cyromazine is an insect growth regulator, used to control fly larvae
in livestock and poultry manure. It can be fed directly to livestock or
applied directly to fly breeding sites. Cyromazine also exhibits systemic
activity and is used as a foliar spray to control leaf miners in vegetables,
potatoes, etc., and on mushrooms.
Uses
Insect growth regulator
Uses
Insect growth regulator. Insecticide.
Definition
ChEBI: Cyromazine is a triamino-1,3,5-triazine. It has a role as a triazine insecticide and a mouse metabolite.
Preparation
Cyromazine is prepared by the reaction of cyanuric chloride and cyclopropylamine to obtain 2-Cyclopropylamino-4,6-dichloro-triazepine, and then reacts with ammonia to obtain 2-Cyclopropylamino-4-chloro-6-aminostriazepine, and then reacting with ammonia to produce.
General Description
N-Cyclopropyl-2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine, also known as cyromazine, is an insect growth regulator(IGR) that is commonly used as an insecticide. It undergoes metabolism in plants and animals to form melamine. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopic study indicates that it interacts with the surface of silver colloid through the lone pair on nitrogen.
Flammability and Explosibility
Notclassified
Agricultural Uses
Insecticide (insect growth regulator): As an insect growth regulator, cyromazine is fed to caged poultry and is passed through the chicken, leaving a residue in the manure. The chemical controls the growth of the fly larvae developing in the manure. Used as a foliar spray to control leaf miners in vegetables, mushrooms, potatoes and ornamentals and to control flies on animals.
Trade name
ARMOR®; CITATION; CGA-72662®; LARVADEX®; PATRON®; TRIGARD®; VETRAZIN®
Environmental Fate
Chemical/Physical. Cyromazine will react with mineral acids (e.g., hydrochloric acid,
sulfuric acid) forming water-soluble salts
Metabolic pathway
Information presented in this summary is abstracted from the data evaluation
published by the Pesticide Safety Directorate (PSD, 1993). The major
degradation pathway of cyromazine involves the N-dealkylation of the
cyclopropyl moiety to yield melamine. Both cyromazine and melamine are
quite stable to biotransformation. Deamination and the formation of
N-methylcyromazine were observed as minor pathways.
Degradation
Cyromazine (1) is stable to hydrolysis at pH 5, 7 and 9 and 70 °C
for up to 28 days. No degradation of cyromazine was observed when
irradiated under mercury vapour lamp (>290 nm) at 25 °C for up to 168 hours.
