Athidathion is an obsolete organophosphate broad-spectrum insecticide for the control of sucking and chewing insects. Little information is available on its environmental fate and behaviour, ecotoxicity or impacts on human health.
Athidathion could be useful in pesticide compositions.
ChEBI: Athidathion is an aromatic ether.
In industrial practice, the production of athidathion involves a multi step chemical synthesis using specialised reactions to couple diethyl phosphorodithioate with thiadiazole derivatives.
Acetylcholinesterase (AchE) inhibitor.
