Identification of the first alkenyl chiloglottone congener

J Poldy, R Peakall, RA Barrow

Index: Poldy, Jacqueline; Peakall, Rod; Barrow, Russell A. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2012 , # 29 p. 5818 - 5827

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Abstract

Abstract Orchids of the genus Chiloglottis rely on sexual deception to attract a male thynnine wasp, whereupon a courtship routine results in the deposition and transfer of pollinia and subsequent pollination of the orchid. The chemical cues responsible for this behavior were recognized as a new class of natural products and efforts to synthetically prepare them, to assist in structural identification and to aid in ecological studies, have been ongoing. Most ...