Product Specifications
| Prod Model: |
CAS NO. 1071-83-6 |
| Markets: |
North America,South America,Eastern Europe,Southeast Asia,Africa,Oceania,Mid East,Eastern Asia,Western Europe |
| Appearance: |
Powder |
| Usage: |
Non-Selective |
| Composition: |
Organic |
| Colour: |
Colourless |
Product Description
Common name: glyphosate (ANSI, BSI, E-ISO, F-ISO, JMAF, WSSA).
Glyphosate is a broad spectrum, post-emergent herbicide active by plant translocation. Glyphosate sesquisodium is used as a plant regulator on sugar cane. Soil residues generally have a half-life of less than 60 days. Glyphosate is an organophosphonate of low mammalian toxicity, which does not inhibit cholinesterase. Carrier solvents used in commercial formulations may change toxicological properties.
IUPAC name: N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine
CAS name: N-(phosphonomethyl)glycine
CAS registry number: 1071-83-6
38641-94-0 (mono(isopropylammonium) salt)
70393-85-0 (sesquisodium salt)
81591-81-3 (trimesium)
RTECS number: MC 1075000
Molecular formula: C3H8NO5P
Relative molecular mass: 169.01
Active content: 95% purity
Primary use: Herbicide
Physical characteristics:
Pure glyphosate is a colourless, odourless, crystalline solid with a melting point of 185º C and decomposes at 187 º C producing toxic fumes including nitrogen oxides and phosphorus oxides. Solutions of the glyphosate salts are corrosive to iron or galvanized steel.
Solubility:
Pure glyphosate is slightly soluble in water (12 g/litre at 25 º C), and is practically insoluble in most organic solvents. The alkali-metal and amine salts are readily soluble in water.
Stability:
Glyphosate formulations are stable for extended periods below 60 º C.
Vapour pressure: <1 x 10-5 Pa at 25 º C
Common formulations:
Available as a water based solution of the glyphosate salt. RoundupR is the major formulation and contains 480 g mono (isopropylammonium) glyphosate/litre (equivalent to 360 g glyphosate/litre). Formulations might contain other active ingredients such as simasine, 2.4-D, or MCPA.
Pests controlled:
As a non-selective, post-emergent herbicide, glyphosate is very effective against deep rooted and woody perennials, annual and biennial grasses, sedges and broad leaved weeds.
Use pattern:
Glyphosate is used in both agriculture and forestry. It is also used for control of plants above the surface in aquatic environments, parks and road verges.
Unintended effects:
A herbicide of low selectivity. Not toxic to bees, birds and most aquatic organisms.
Mode of action:
In plants and some micro-organisms glyphosate inhibits the shikimic acid pathway, causing a deficit in aromatic amino acids. (Absence of this pathway may account for its low toxicity in animals). Acute effects in animals, following intraperitoneal administration of high doses, are suggestive of altered mitochondrial activity - possibly, uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation.
