Title: | "Synthesis of (R, Z)-7, 15-Hexadecadien-4-olide, the Sex Pheromone of the Yellowish Elongate Chafer (Heptophylla picea)" |
Author(s): | Kuwahara S; Hamade S; Yoshinaga Y; Leal WS; Kodama O; |
Address: | "a Laboratory of Agricultural Chemicals, Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University , Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-03 , Japan. b Laboratory of Chemical Prospecting, National Institute of Sericultural and Entomological Science , 1-2 Ohwashi, Tsukuba-shi 305, Japan" |
Journal Title: | Biosci Biotechnol Biochem |
ISSN/ISBN: | 0916-8451 (Print) 0916-8451 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "(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 biological activity" |
Keywords: | "7, 15-hexadecadien-4-olide Heptophylla picea sex pheromone yellowish elongate chafer;" |
Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEKuwahara, S Hamade, S Yoshinaga, Y Leal, W S Kodama, O eng England 1997/01/01 Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 1997 Jan; 61(10):1696-8. doi: 10.1271/bbb.61.1696" |