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Synthesis of [3 H 2]-(11S, 17R)-11, 17-Dimethylhentriacontane: a Useful Tool for the Study of the Internalisation of Communication Pheromones of Ant Camponotus …

D Pempo, JC Cintrat, JL Parrain, M Santelli

Index: Pempo, Delphine; Cintrat, Jean-Christophe; Parrain, Jean-Luc; Santelli, Maurice Tetrahedron, 2000 , vol. 56, # 30 p. 5493 - 5497

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Abstract

The convergent synthesis in high enantiomeric and diastereoisomeric purity of [3H2]-(11S, 17R)-11, 17-dimethylhentriacontane, a communication pheromone of ant Camponotus vagus is described. The stereogenic centres were introduced from commercially available (S)-citronellol and (R)-citronellal and the tritiation step was conducted in the last step of the synthesis with tritium gas over the Wilkinson catalyst.