| Title: | Significance of chirality in pheromone science |
| Address: | "Photosensitive Materials Research Center, Toyo Gosei Co., Ltd, Wakahagi 4-2-1, Inba-mura, Inba-gun, Chiba 270-609, Japan" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.bmc.2007.08.040 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1464-3391 (Electronic) 0968-0896 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Pheromones play important roles in chemical communication among organisms. Various chiral and non-racemic pheromones have been identified since the late 1960s. Their enantioselective syntheses could establish the absolute configuration of the naturally occurring pheromones and clarified the relationships between absolute configuration and bioactivity. For example, neither the (R)- nor (S)-enantiomer of sulcatol, the aggregation pheromone of an ambrosia beetle Gnathotrichus sulcatus, is behaviorally active, while their mixture is bioactive. In the case of olean, the olive fruit fly pheromone, its (R)-isomer is active for the males, and the (S)-isomer is active for the females. About 140 chiral pheromones are reviewed with regard to their stereochemistry-bioactivity relationships. Problems encountered in studying chirality of pheromones were examined and analyzed to think about possible future directions in pheromone science" |
| Keywords: | Animals Female Male Molecular Structure Pheromones/chemical synthesis/*chemistry/*physiology Stereoisomerism Structure-Activity Relationship; |
| Notes: | "MedlineMori, Kenji eng Review England 2007/09/15 Bioorg Med Chem. 2007 Dec 15; 15(24):7505-23. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2007.08.040. Epub 2007 Aug 25" |
