Cyanoacrylate thiolate salts such as the sodium salt of ethoxyethyl-3-p-chlorobenzylthio-2-cyano-3-mercapto acrylate have been shown to be relatively slow binding, potent inhibitors of photosynthetic electron transport, that are equally active against thylakoids isolated from atrazine-susceptible and atrazine-resistant Brassica napus seedlings. It has been suggested that their mode of binding involves the substituted benzyl group interacting with the membrane lipids and the thiolate ion

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... hiolate ion interacting in the region of the histidine215 residue of the D1 peptide, close to the non-heme Fe centre. This, together with their slow rate of binding, has led to the thiolate salts being classified as phenol type inhibitors.