Ds. Matteson et Hw. Man, HIGH-PRECISION ASYMMETRIC-SYNTHESIS OF STEGOBIOL AND STEGOBINONE VIA BORONIC ESTERS, Journal of organic chemistry, 58(24), 1993, pp. 6545-6547
Highly stereoselective boronic ester chemistry has been used to synthe
size the drugstore beetle pheromones stegobiol and stegobinone. The co
nvergent route utilizes a single intermediate containing all of the st
ereogenic centers for both segments of the pheromones, requires only o
ne chromatographic separation, and is the first synthesis to provide p
ure, crystalline samples.