Flashcards: Rodenticides

Brodifacoum is a highly lethal 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist anticoagulant poison.

Calcium phosphide (CP, Ca3P2) is a chemical used in incendiary bombs.

Copper arsenate (Cu3(AsO4)2.4H2O, or Cu5H2(AsO4)4.2H2O), also called copper orthoarsenate, tricopper arsenate, cupric arsenate, or tricopper orthoarsenate, is a blue or bluish-green powder insoluble in water and alcohol and soluble in aqueous ammonium and dilute acids.

Zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) is an inorganic chemical compound.

Warfarin, also known by the brand names Coumadin among others, is an anticoagulant normally used to prevent the formation of blood clots in the blood vessels and their migration elsewhere in the body.

Aluminium phosphide (aluminum phosphide) is a highly toxic inorganic compound with the chemical formula AlP used as a wide band gap semiconductor and a fumigant.

Thallium(I) sulfate (Tl2SO4) or thallous sulfate is the sulfate salt of thallium in the common +1 oxidation state, as indicated by the Roman numeral I.

Zyklon B (German pronunciation: [tsykloːn ˈbeː]; anglicized /ˈzaɪklɒn ˈbiː/ or translated Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s.

α-Naphthylthiourea (ANTU) is an organosulfur compound with the formula C10H7NHC(S)NH2.

Diphenadione is a vitamin K antagonist that has anticoagulant effects and is used as a rodenticide against rats, mice, voles, ground squirrels and other rodents.

Paris green (copper(II) acetate triarsenite or copper(II) acetoarsenite) is an inorganic compound.

Bromadiolone is a potent anticoagulant rodenticide.

Flocoumafen is an anticoagulant of the 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist type.

Sodium fluoroacetate, known in pesticide form as 1080, is the organofluorine chemical compound with the formula FCH2CO2Na.

2-Fluoroethanol is the chemical compound with the formula CH2FCH2OH and the simplest fluorohydrin.

Bromethalin is a rodenticide which poisons the central nervous system by uncoupling mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, which causes a decrease in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis.

Pyrinuron (Pyriminil, Vacor) is a chemical compound formerly used as a rodenticide.

Phenylsilatrane is a convulsant chemical which has been used as a rodenticide.

Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine (TETS) is an organic compound that is used as a rodenticide (rat poison).

Chloralose is an avicide, and a rodenticide used to kill mice in temperatures below 15 °C.

1,3-Difluoro-2-propanol is a metabolic poison which disrupts the citric acid cycle and is used as a rodenticide, similar to sodium fluoroacetate.

Fluoroacetamide is an organic compound based on acetamide with one fluorine atom replacing hydrogen on the methyl group.

Norbormide (Raticate, Shoxin) is a toxic compound used as a rodenticide.

Phosacetim is a toxic organophosphate compound, which acts as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and is used as a rodenticide.

Scilliroside is a toxic compound derived from the plant Drimia maritima (syn. Urginea maritima), which is sometimes used as a rodenticide.

Coumatetralyl is an anticoagulant of the 4-hydroxycoumarin vitamin K antagonist type used as a rodenticide.

Difethialone is an anticoagulant used as a rodenticide.

Pindone is an anticoagulant drug for agricultural use.