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Coleopteran pheromones. Communication 9. Synthesis of the attractant of the leaf beetle diabrotica virgifera virgifera (coleoptera: Chrysamelidae) from (+)-3,7-di-methyl-1,6-octadiene

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Simple routes for the synthesis of (2RS, 8R)-(−)-2-propionoxy-8-methyldecane (I) the pheromone of the leaf beetleDiabrotica virgifera virgifera — from chiral monofunctional synthons, obtained from the available (S)-(+)-3,7-dimethyl-1,6-octadiene, were developed.

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 9, pp. 2080–2083, September, 1987.

It corresponds to Communication 4 in the series “Terpenes in Organic Synthesis.” For the preceding Communication, cf. [1].

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Khao, N.K., Mavrov, M.V. & Serebryakov, É.P. Coleopteran pheromones. Communication 9. Synthesis of the attractant of the leaf beetle diabrotica virgifera virgifera (coleoptera: Chrysamelidae) from (+)-3,7-di-methyl-1,6-octadiene. Russ Chem Bull 36, 1931–1934 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00958349

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