What is Fenpropathrin?

Fenpropathrin, or fenopropathrin, is a broadly used pyrethroid insecticide in agriculture and household. Fenpropathrin is an ingestion and get in touch with artificial pyrethroid. Its mode of movement is similar to other natural (pyrethrum) and artificial pyrethroids where in they interfere with the kinetics of voltage gated sodium channels causing paralysis and death of the pest. Fenpropathrin was the primary of the light-stable artificial pyrethroids to be synthesized in 1971, however it was not commercialized till 1980. Like other pyrethroids with an α-cyano group, fenpropathrin also belongs to the termed type II pyrethroids (e.g. cyfluthrin, cyhalothrin, cypermethrin, deltamethrin and esfenvalerate). Type II pyrethroids are a stronger toxicant than kind I in depolarizing insect nerves. Application quotes of fenpropathrin in agriculture in keeping with US environmental safety agency (EPA) varies by crop however isn't to exceed 0.4 lb ai/acre.