Basic Info.

Chemical Name: 1-[(6 - chloro - 3 - pyridyl)methyl]-N - nitroimidazolidin - 2 - ylideneamine

Chemical Formula: C₉H₁₀ClN₅O₂

Molecular Weight: 255.66 g/mol

CAS Number: 138261-41-3

Appearance: The pure product is a white crystalline powder. Commercial products are mostly white or off-white powders with no obvious odor.

Melting Point: 143.8°C

Vapor Pressure: 2.0×10⁻⁷ Pa (20°C), with low volatility, suitable for soil treatment and foliar spraying.

Solubility: Solubility in water is 4.8 g/L (20°C). It is easily soluble in methanol and dichloromethane, and slightly soluble in petroleum ether;

It has high stability, is not easily decomposed under neutral and weakly acidic conditions, but may hydrolyze in a strong alkaline environment (pH>12).

Product Description

Introduction: 
1. Product Name: imidacloprid

2. Introduction: 
Mode of action Systemic insecticide with translaminar activity and with contact and stomach action. Readily taken up by the plant and further distributed acropetally, with good root-systemic action. Uses Control of sucking insects, including rice-, leaf- and planthoppers, aphids, thrips and whitefly. Also effective against soil insects, termites and some species of biting insects, such as rice water weevil and Colorado beetle. Has no effect on nematodes and spider mites. Used as a seed dressing, as soil treatment and as foliar treatment in different crops, e.g. rice, cotton, cereals, maize, sugar beet, potatoes, vegetables, citrus fruit, pome fruit and stone fruit. Applied at 25-100 g/ha for foliar application, and 50-175 g/100 kg seed for most seed treatments, and 350-700 g/100 kg cotton seed. Also used to controls fleas in dogs and cats.