The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Alternative route to three of the four terpenoid components of the boll weevil sex pheromone

JP De Souza, AMR Goncalves

Index: de Souza,J.P.; Goncalves,A.M.R. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1978 , vol. 43, # 10 p. 2068 - 2069

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Abstract

The ecological imbalance and environmental pollution due to insectiside residues has stimulated a great interest in the synthesis of pheromones, since they may provide a generally nontoxic method of biological control of insect populations.'A pheromone complex emitted by live male boll weevils (Anthonornus grandis Boheman) comprising the four terpenoid compounds (+)-cis-2-isopropenyl-l-methylcyclobutaneethanol (l),(Z)-3, 3- ...