Chemical name: O,O-diethyl O-2-isopropyl-6-methylpyrimidin-4-yl phosphorothioate
CAS no.: 333-41-5

Structural formula:

Molecular formula: C₁₂H₂₁N₂O₃PS
Physical & chemical property:
Physical State: Clear colourless liquid
Boiling point: 83-84°C/0.0002mmHg
Density: 1.11(20°C)
Solubility: In water 60mg/l (20°C). completely miscible with common organic solvents.
Stability: Susceptible to oxidation above 100°C. Stable in neutral media, but slowly hydrolysed in alkaline media, and more rapidly in acidic media. Decomposes above 120°C.
Specification: 96% TC, 95% TC, 600 g/l EC
Uses: Control of sucking and chewing insects and mites on a very wide range of crops, including deciduous fruit trees, citrus fruit, vines, olives, bananas, pineapples, vegetables, potatoes, beet, sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, tea, tobacco, maize, sorghum, alfalfa, flax, cotton, rice, ornamentals, glasshouse crops, forestry, etc., at 300-600g/ha; soil insects; phorid and sciarid flies in mushroom cultivation; flies, lice, mites, fleas, cockroaches, bedbugs, ants, and other insect pests in animal houses and household use. Seed treatment for maize, for control of frit flies and also conferring bird-repellent properties. Also used as a veterinary ectoparasiticide.