IDENTIFICATION OF THE SEX-PHEROMONE OF SCROBIPALPULA-ABSOLUTA - DETERMINATION OF DOUBLE-BOND POSITIONS IN TRIPLE UNSATURATED STRAIGHT-CHAINMOLECULES BY MEANS OF DIMETHYL DISULFIDE DERIVATIZATION

Authors
GRIEPINK FC VANBEEK TA POSTHUMUS MA DEGROOT A VISSER JH VOERMAN S
Citation
Fc. Griepink et al., IDENTIFICATION OF THE SEX-PHEROMONE OF SCROBIPALPULA-ABSOLUTA - DETERMINATION OF DOUBLE-BOND POSITIONS IN TRIPLE UNSATURATED STRAIGHT-CHAINMOLECULES BY MEANS OF DIMETHYL DISULFIDE DERIVATIZATION, Tetrahedron letters, 37(3), 1996, pp. 411-414
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Chemistry Inorganic & Nuclear
Journal title
Tetrahedron letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00404039
Volume
37
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
411 - 414
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-4039(1996)37:3<411:IOTSOS>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
The sex pheromone of Scrobipalpula absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Ge lechiidae) was identified as a 92:8 mixture of (3E,8Z 11Z)-3,8,11-tetr adecatrienyl acetate (1) and (3E,8Z)-3,8-tetradecadienyl acetate (2) t hrough mass spectrometric investigation of the dimethyl disulphide der ivatives of excised sex pheromone glands. It is the first time that th is method was used for triple unsaturated straight chain molecules. Co mpound (2) was identified as a new pheromone component. A synthetic mi xture of the two identified compounds proved to be attractive in wind tunnel experiments.