organophosphate
organophosphate compound

Organophosphate compounds are used in agriculture and are highly toxic.

Parathion, also called parathion-ethyl or diethyl parathion, is an organophosphate compound.

Instead of a new insecticide, he accidentally discovered tabun, an enormously toxic organophosphate compound still sometimes stockpiled today as a nerve agent.

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

Tetraethyl pyrophosphate, abbreviated TEPP, is an organophosphate compound.

O-Ethyl methylphosphonothioic acid (EMPTA) is an organophosphate compound.

Dr. Ranajit Ghosh, a chemist at the Plant Protection Laboratories of Imperial Chemical Industries was investigating a class of organophosphate compounds (organophosphate esters of substituted aminoethanethiols).

Colonel Rüdiger, head of the CW section, ordered the construction of new laboratories for the further investigation of tabun and other organophosphate compounds and Schrader soon moved to a new laboratory at Wuppertal-Elberfeld in the Ruhr valley to continue his research in secret throughout World War II.