Toxicology
- Chlorophenoxy herbicides contain an aliphatic carboxylic acid moiety attached to a chlorine-or-methyl-substituted aromatic ring.
- Representative compounds of this class include 2,4-dichlorophenoxy acetic acid; 2, 4-dichlorophenoxy propionic acid; 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxy acetic acid; dicamba (3,6-dichloro-o-anisic acid); 4-chloro-2methyl-phenoxy acetic acid [MCPA]; Mecoprop (2-(4-chloro 2-methylphenoxy) propionic acid [MCPP]; and silvex (2-(2,4, 5-trichlorophenoxy propionic acid).
- 2,4-D, was composed of 50% of Agent Orange used for defoliation during the Vietnam war. The health effects of Agent . . .
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