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Photodegradation of Strobilurin Fungicide Mandestrobin in Water
Takeshi Adachi1, Yusuke Suzuki1, Masahiro Nishiyama2
1Environmental Health Science Laboratory, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd., 4-2-1 Takatsukasa , Takarazuka , Hyogo 665-8555 , Japan.
Abstract:
Photodegradation of a new strobilurin fungicide, mandestrobin, was investigated in buffered aqueous solution and synthetic humic water (SHW) under continuous irradiation with artificial sunlight (λ > 290 nm). In both aquatic media, the direct photolysis preferentially proceeded via homolytic bond cleavage at the benzyl phenyl ether, and the subsequent recombination of geminate radicals in a solvent cage gave the photo-Claisen rearrangement products. A radical mechanism in the photochemical rearrangement was strongly supported by a radical-trapping technique using a novel nitroxide spin label combined with electron spin resonance (ESR) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analyses. Photosensitized generation of hydroxyl radical in SHW might significantly contribute to enhancing the formation of a benzyl alcohol derivative. The series of photolysis products steadily degraded and finally mineralized to carbon dioxide.
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