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The 6-hydroxy derivative of picloram (4-amino-3,5,6-trichloropicolinic acid) is not on the main pathway of the soil microbial decomposition sequence for picloram. Rather it may be formed in very small amounts in a competing reaction. Decarboxylation of picloram cannot be the initial reaction in this sequence and, in fact, does not occur.
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Meikle et al. (1974) studied this question.
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