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SUBMITTER: Brenna E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6151462 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brenna Elisabetta E Crotti Michele M Gatti Francesco G FG Monti Daniela D Parmeggiani Fabio F Pugliese Andrea A
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20170922 10
The use of pheromones in the integrated pest management of insects is currently considered a sustainable and environmentally benign alternative to hazardous insecticides. 4-Methylheptan-3-ol is an interesting example of an insect pheromone, because its stereoisomers are active towards different species. All four possible stereoisomers of this compound were prepared from 4-methylhept-4-en-3-one by a one-pot procedure in which the two stereogenic centres were created during two sequential reductio ...[more]