Mary B. Pybus, R. L. Wain, F. Wightman
Oct 18, 1958
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Abstract
THE pronounced effect on plant growth-regulating activity that results from the introduction of chlorine atoms into certain positions of the benzene ring in benzoic and phenoxyacetic acids is well known1, and some of these active derivatives, for example, 2 : 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2 : 4D), 2 : 4 : 5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2 : 4 : 5T) and 2 : 3 : 6-trichlorobenzoic acid have become widely used for selective weed control. Systematic investigations with these groups of compounds have provided much information on the structural requirements necessary for high growth-regulating activity2. The influence of nuclear substitution on the activity of phenylacetic acids, however, has not received much attention, although some of these compounds have been examined (see Pybus3).