Pheromone Synthesis, CLXXVI: Synthesis of the four stereoisomers of 3,13-dimethylheptadecane, the major sex pheromone component of the western false hemlock looper

Article abstract of DOI:10.1002/jlac.199619961205

All of the four stereoisomers of 3,13-dimethylheptadecane (1), the female-produced sex pheromone of the western false hemlock looper (Nepytia freemani), were synthesized by starting from the enantiomers of citronellol (2a) and 2-methyl-1-butanol (4a). VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1996.