OBTAINING AN ACTIVE INGREDIENT FOR COTTON SEED TREATMENT BASED ON METHYLENDIUREA AND PARAAMINOBENZOIC ACID AND STUDYING ITS PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS

Seed treatment is the main method of protecting plants from infectious diseases. The article presents data on the production of a double compound based on methylene diurea and paraaminobenzoic acid and the study of its physicochemical characteristics. The chemical interaction in the three-component water-salt system methylenediurea (MDU) – para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) – water was studied using the isothermal method of physicochemical analysis. The crystallization region of the new binary compound, the active substance, was established at a molar ratio MDU: PABA = 1:2. The formation of the double compound is confirmed by X-ray phase and IR spectroscopic methods of analysis. From the obtained X-ray phase analysis data, it follows that the reference lines of the double compound and their intensity differ from the X-ray patterns of the initial components. The IR spectra of MDM and PABA are characterized by intense absorption in the region of 3500-3390 cm-1 , 2000-500 cm-1 and 3500-3345 cm-1 , 1800-500 cm-1 , respectively. In the IR spectra of the new double compound MDM•2PABA, the absorption intensity in the region of 1800-500 cm-1 increases. A decrease in the absorption region of the stretching vibration of CO groups from 1626, 1626.3 cm-1 to 1612 cm-1 is observed in the case of the double compound MDM•2PABA. The results of the studies indicate the formation of a new compound. It is shown that the double compound has low hygroscopicity under summer, autumn, spring and winter storage conditions, high swelling and moisture capacity, and low solubility.