An alternative synthesis of a sex pheromone of the dry bean beetle Callosobruchus analis

Article abstract of DOI:10.1007/BF02495309

A formal total synthesis of 3-methylhept-2(Z)-enoic acid, a sex pheromone of the dry bean beetle Callosobruchus analis, was performed on the basis of a highly stereoselective version of the Peterson olefination of ketones developed previously by the authors.