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3-Phenoxybenzyl and α-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl esters of 2,2-dimethyl-3-(4-difluoromethoxyphenyl)cyclopropane carboxylic acid have been synthesized. The latter compound, which is the cyclopropane analog of pyrethroid fluorocitrinate, has moderate insecticide activity toward the housefly.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 652–656, March, 1990.
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Shapiro, E.A., éismont, M.Y., Pereverzeva, Y.O. et al. Synthesis of benzyl esters of 2,2-dimethyl-3-(4-difluoromethoxyphenyl)-cyclopropane carboxylic acid — cyclic analogs of pyrethroid fluorocitrinate. Russ Chem Bull 39, 573–577 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00959586
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