Synthesis from 10-undecenoic acid of octadeca-2E,13Z-dienylacetate, a component of the sex pheromones of Synanthedon tipuliformis and Zenzera pyrina

Article abstract of DOI:10.1007/BF02236432

A new synthesis of octadeca-2E,13Z-dienylacetate from 10-undecenoic acid is developed by constructing the carbon framework of the pheromone in the key step and introducing the 2E double bond by Doebner condensation of hexadec-11-ynal and malonic acid.