Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry

Enantiomer and conformer recognition of (+) and (−)-disparlure and their analogs by the pheromone binding proteins of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar

Y Yu, E Plettner

Index: Yu, Yang; Plettner, Erika Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 2013 , vol. 21, # 7 p. 1811 - 1822

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Abstract

Adult female gypsy moths produce a sex pheromone (+)-(7R, 8S)-2-methyl-7, 8- epoxyoctadecane,(+)-disparlure, to attract male gypsy moths. To better understand the recognition of (+)-disparlure by the male's olfactory system, we synthesized racemic and