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- Title
THE NEMATICIDAL PROPERTIES OF AZIDES.
- Authors
BRADBURY, F. R.; CAMPBELL, A.; SUCKLING, C. W.; JAMESON, H. R.; PEACOCK, F. C.
- Abstract
The use of sodium azide and organic acid azides for the control of potato root eelworm has been investigated: in suitable conditions they were effective both in greenhouse tests and in field trials. The biological activity of azides has been shown to arise from liberation of undissociated hydrazoic acid. The acid is only liberated in effective quantities in acid soils, but in such soils it is decomposed with formation of nitrogen. Organic acid azides are decomposed by a wide range of dust diluents and by soil, and there is some evidence that in diluents the main decomposition reaction is the formation of isocyanate by the Curtius rearrangement, whereas on wet soils extensive hydrolysis occurs giving hydrazoic acid, which is subsequently decomposed.
- Publication
Annals of Applied Biology, 1957, Vol 45, Issue 2, p241
- ISSN
0003-4746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1744-7348.1957.tb00462.x