A series of novel 8-(3-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)-6-methyl- [1,2,4]triazolo [4,3-b]pyridazin-3(2H)-one derivatives were designed, synthesized and evaluated for their bioactivities. Some of them provided > 80 % inhibition of chlorophyll of Spirodela polyrhiza or > 70 % inhibition of growth of Spirodela polyrhiza at 10 µg/ml. Quantitative structure-activity relationship studies were performed on these compounds using physicochemical parameters (hydrophobic) as independent and bioactivity as dependent parameter, where bioactivity correlated best (r>0.8) with physicochemical parameters in this set of molecules. Both chlorophyll and growth inhibitions of Spirodela polyrhiza for the title compounds were effected by the molecular hydrophobicity, LogP. When the LogP value was about 3.02, the corresponding compounds showed better chlorophyll inhibition activity. When the LogP value was about 2.84, the corresponding compounds showed better fresh weight inhibition activity.