250207-22-8Relevant articles and documents
Pheromone synthesis, CXCVI. Synthesis of germacrene-B and its extension to the synthesis of (±)-9-methylgermacrene-B, the racemate of the male- produced sex pheromone of the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis from Lapinha, Brazil
Muto, Shin-Etsu,Nishimura, Yutaka,Mori, Kenji
, p. 2159 - 2165 (2007/10/03)
Both germacrene-B (2) and 9-methylgermacrene-B [(±)-1] were synthesized by employing cyclization reactions [8 → 9 and (±)-20 → (±)-21] as the key steps. The latter [(±)-1] was shown to be the racemate of the male-produced sex pheromone of the sandfly Lutz