Flutriafol is used to control a wide variety of leaf and ear diseases
in cereals. It is also used in seed treatment formulations to control the
major soil-borne and seed-borne diseases of cereals.
Flutriafol is a systemic fungicide of the triazole class. Flutriafol has broad spectrum fungicidal activity and is used to control effectively cereal powdery mildew, cloud disease, leaf spot disease a
nd rust disease.
ChEBI: 1-(2-fluorophenyl)-1-(4-fluorophenyl)-2-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)ethanol is a tertiary alcohol that is ethanol in which one of the hydrogens at position 1 is replaced by an p-fluorophenyl group, the other hydrogen at position 1 is replaced by a p-fluorophenyl group, and one of the hydrogens at position 2 is replaced by a 1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl group. It is a member of triazoles, a tertiary alcohol and a member of monofluorobenzenes.
Flutriafol is stable to hydrolysis and to light and it is persistent in soils. In
crops, the metabolites identified were derivatives of triazole.
Flutriafol, 1, is stable to hydrolysis at pH 5,7 and 9 in water at 50 °C over
a period of 30 days in the dark.
[14C-friazole]Flutriafoaln d [14C-carbinol]flutriafol were applied at a rate
equivalent to 94 g ai ha-1 to samples of dry sandy loam soil distributed as
a thin layer on 10 cm diameter glass plates. Samples were exposed to
natural sunlight for 30 days or to alternating periods of 'black light' and
darkness for 7 days. Recovery was 60-47% of applied radioactivity after
7 days artificial illumination and 74-85% after exposure to natural sunlight.
All degradation products accounted for ＜5 %of the total applied
radioactivity (PSD, 1996).
