Carpropamid, a New Fungicide for Rice Blast Control
Carpropamid, a New Fungicide for Rice Blast Control
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卡菌酰胺,一种用于稻瘟病防治的新型杀菌剂
DOI:
10.1584/jpestics.23.145
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Y. Kurahashi
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作者:
S. Kagabu;Y. Kurahashi
Fungicidal compounds with novel modes of action are constantly required for effective control of plant pathogens. Now a new type of fungicide of cyclopropanecarboxamide structure, carpropamid (13, Fig. 1), was added to the standard tools for rice blast control. We report the process to attain the structure of carpropamid and the biological efficacies related to the stereo configurations of this compound and the analogous chiral molecules. In 1972 Shell researchers claimed 2, 2-dichlorocyclopropanecarboxylic acid (WL28325; 1) as a systemic fungicide for rice blast disease.1) Not only the uncommon skeleton caught our attention, but also the unique disease-control action by inducing phytoalexin in the host plants stimulated our interest.2) In field application, however, it turned out that this carboxylic acid is rather volatile and too hydrophilic as a practical fungicide. Esterification (2 and 3), introduction of lipophilic increments (4 and 5), or changing the carboxylic acid into the bioisosteric groups (6 and 7) brought no satisfactory solution (Fig. 1, Table 1). It should be worth mentioning that among the attempted variations to overcome the physicochemical drawbacks of the lead, alcohol (7) and the derivatives (8 and 9) holding the high level of activity may be counted as an example of molecular designs based on the metabolic consideration.3,4) Carboxamides from alkyl or aromatic amines (10-12) did not fulfill our expectation either. In this case also the activity seemed to decrease as the molecular size increases. In the structure-activity relationship study, however, it became gradually clear that specific amide structures combining a-substituted 2, 2-dichlorocyclopropanecarboxylic acid with a-phenethylamine were particularly effective for increasing activities. Amides (13-17) showed remarkably high potencies. Among them carboxamide (13) was selected for a further intensive field study together with trimethyl derivative (15) and its 4-bromo homologue (17). Amides 15 and 17 have two, and 13 has three asymmetric