Abstract:
With the emergence and widespread use of insecticides, the resistance of pests to insecticides has increased. To develop efficient, low toxicity, and environmentally friendly insecticides to address the threat of pest resistance, this work adopts the method of active substructures splicing and uses cyproflanilide as the lead compound to design and synthesize 18 novel
m-diamide compounds containing thioether, sulfoxide, and sulfone. All compounds were characterized by
1H NMR and HRMS and some representative compounds were selected for
13C NMR characterization to further confirm their structures. Most target compounds exhibited excellent insecticidal activity against
Nilaparvata lugens, especially
12d at 100 mg/L showing 87.32% activity against
N. lugens. At the same time, some compounds also showed good activity against
Tetranychus cinnabarinus, among which
10f showed 100.00% activity against
T. cinnabarinus at a concentration of 10 mg/L. Based on the bioassay activity, preliminary structure-activity relationships were also discussed.