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2E,6S,7S,10R) - Juvenile hormone III bisepoxide, the putative characte
ristic juvenile hormone of higher dipteran insects, has been synthesis
ed efficiently and in high stereochemical purity from geraniol by appl
ication of Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation and dihydroxylation proced
ures.