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SUBMITTER: Wu Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3869274 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Zhongtao Z Jäger Manuel M Buter Jeffrey J Minnaard Adriaan J AJ
Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 20131106
A novel synthesis of the aggregation pheromone of the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata, has been developed based on a Sharpless asymmetric epoxidation in combination with a chemoselective alcohol oxidation using catalytic [(neocuproine)PdOAc]2OTf2. Employing this approach, the pheromone was synthesized in 3 steps, 80% yield and 86% ee from geraniol. ...[more]