11024-35-4

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• 67214-54-4 (R)-citronellyl tosylate 
• 99032-67-4 (S)-(+)-1-bromo-2-methylbutane 
• 10422-35-2 1-bromo-2-methyl-butane 
• 41144-01-8 (S)-3,7-dimethyl-6-octenyl tosylate 

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PRODUCTION METHOD OF 4,8-DIMETHYLDECANAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of producing a mixture of (4R,8S)-4,8-dimethyldecanal and (4R,8R)-4,8-dimethyldecanal effective as pheromones for rust-red flour beetles and confused flour beetles, practically in a high yield through a small number of steps. SOLUTION: A method of producing a mixture of (4R,8S)-4,8-dimethyldecanal and (4R,8R)-4,8-dimethyldecanal includes a first step of tosylating (S)-citronellol to obtain a tosylate, a second step of reacting the tosylate with a Grignard reagent to obtain an alkene, a third step of epoxidating the alkene to obtain an epoxide, and a fourth step of cleaving the epoxide with a periodic acid to obtain 4,8-dimethyldecanal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2015,JPOandINPIT

Synthesis of (4R,8R)- and (4S,8R)-4,8-dimethyldecanal: the common aggregation pheromone of flour beetles

The synthesis of (4R,8R)- and (4S,8R)-4,8-dimethyldecanal 1 and 1a has been achieved connecting the chiral building block (R)-2-methyl-1-bromobutane 4 with (R)- and (S)-citronellol derivatives. The key intermediate 4 was obtained optically pure in five steps from methyl (S)-3-hydroxy-2-methylpropionate 2.