Sex pheromone of the longtailed mealybug: a new class of monoterpene structure

…, JA Moreira, JS McElfresh, KM Daane, AS Freund

Index: Millar, Jocelyn G.; Moreira, Jardel A.; McElfresh, J. Steven; Daane, Kent M.; Freund, Amy S. Organic Letters, 2009 , vol. 11, # 12 p. 2683 - 2685

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Citation Number: 30

Abstract

The sex pheromone of the longtailed mealybug, identified as 2-(1, 5, 5-trimethylcyclopent-2- en-1-yl) ethyl acetate, represents the first example of a new monoterpenoid skeleton. A [2, 3]- sigmatropic rearrangement was used in a key step during construction of the sterically congested tetraalkylcylopentene framework.