Cycloxydim

The Uses of Cycloxydim

Cycloxydim is a cyclohexene oxime herbicide that is used for the control of grass weeds of many agricultural and horticultural broad-leaved crops.

Definition

ChEBI: 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.

Metabolic pathway

Cycloxydim is rapidly metabolized in soybean plants, and four series of different types of metabolite in either free or conjugated form are identified. Transformation products are formed by chemical and/or enzymatic reactions involving a range of oxidation, a rearrangement, and cleavage of the cyclohexanone ring or ethoxyimino side chain.