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VOLATILE sulphur compounds such as carbon disulphide and thiocarbonyl chloride are considered to be formed when the agricultural fungicide captan (N-trichloro-methyl-thio-4-cyclohexene-1,2-dicarboxyimide) reacts with fungal spores1,2. During a general investigation3 of the fungitoxicity of captan we have examined by gas chromatography the vapours released when captan reacts with the conidia of Neurospora crassa, macroconidial wild-type Em 5297a, at 25° C.
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SOMERS, E., RICHMOND, D. & PICKARD, J. Carbonyl Sulphide from the Decomposition of Captan. Nature 215, 214 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215214a0
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