New Simple Synthesis of the Housefly Sex Attractant

YP Yen, FL Wang

Index: Yen, Yao-Pin; Wang, Fey-Long Organic Preparations and Procedures International, 1997 , vol. 29, # 4 p. 494 - 496

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Abstract

Muscalure [(Z)-9-tricosene, 31, a sex attractant of the housefly (Musca domestica L.), has been prepared in a number of different ways, such as the transformations of acetylene,'oleic acid? and olefin disproportionation. 3 Most of the chemical syntheses involve multistep processes! We now describe a simple, convenient, and more efficient synthesis of muscalure proceeding via a cupratecatalyzed Grignard coupling reaction as the key step. ...