PHEROMONE SYNTHESIS .165. A NEW SYNTHESIS OF ,7R,8E,10E)-3,7,9-TRIMETHYL-8,10-DODECADIEN-6-ONE, THE MAJOR COMPONENT OF THE SEX-PHEROMONE OFTHE MARITIME PINE SCALE
K. Mori et al., PHEROMONE SYNTHESIS .165. A NEW SYNTHESIS OF ,7R,8E,10E)-3,7,9-TRIMETHYL-8,10-DODECADIEN-6-ONE, THE MAJOR COMPONENT OF THE SEX-PHEROMONE OFTHE MARITIME PINE SCALE, Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, (10), 1994, pp. 971-974
S,7R,8E,10E)-3,7,9-Trimethyl-8,10-dodecadien-6-one (1), the major comp
onent of the female-produced sex pheromone of the maritime pine scale
(Matsucoccus feytaudi), was synthesized by starting from epoxide 2, wh
ich was obtained from meso-epoxy diacetate (F) by employing enzyme-cat
alyzed asymmetric hydrolysis as the key step.