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Preparation of unsaturated aliphatic insect pheromones using cyclic phosphonium ylids
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, (2008/06/13)
This process relates to the synthesis of unsaturated aliphatic esters useful as insect sex attractants, including gossyplure, the insect sex pheromone of the pink bollworm moth, Pectinophora gossypiella, and intermediates therefor. The process utilizes a cyclic phosphonium (Wittig) reagent.
