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Synthesis of (R,Z)-7,15-Hexadecadien-4-olide, the Sex Pheromone of the Yellowish Elongate Chafer (Heptophylla picea)
Kuwahara, Shigefumi,Hamade, Shiharu,Yoshinaga, Yukari,Leal, Walter Soares,Kodama, Osamu
, p. 1696 - 1698 (1997)
(R,Z)-7,15-Hexadecadien-4-olide, the sex pheromone of the yellowish elongate chafer (Heptophylla picea), was synthesized from L-malic acid in 15 steps. The synthetic pheromone was identical with the natural product in its MS, IR, GLC retention time, and b
