Abstract
The herbicidal activity of 3-cyanopyridin-2-yl phosphates, which were designed according to the idea of a mechanism-based inactivator, is probably related to a phosphatase.
We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 29772047, 20572123) for financial support and the State Key Laboratory of Elemento-organic Chemistry, NanKai University for their testing of the herbicidal activity.