Thermal degradation of selected chlorinated herbicides

Thermal degradation of chlorophenoxy acid herbicides

“…The indentification and quantitative determination of products resulting from thermal degradation provide useful information on the toxicological hazards that could arise from accidental burning during manufacturing, storage, and use or from incineration of residues. The thermal behavior of organic pesticides has already been investigated, especially for the disposal of waste pesticides by incineration (McPherson and Johnson, 1956; Kennedy et al, 1972;Holloman et al, 1976;Ahling and Wiberger, 1979). In previous papers, we gave the results of our work on the thermal degradation of diuron and iprodione (Gomez et al, 1982a), oxadiazon (Gomez et al, 1982b), and phosalone (Bruneau et al, 1986).…”