Moth responses to selectively fluorinated sex pheromone analogs
摘要:
Partially fluorinated analogs of the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis) female sex pheromone, 11-tetradecenyl acetate (97:3 Z: E), having mono- and trifluorosubstitutions at the terminal carbon of the pheromone chain, mimicked the biological activity of the pheromone, while analogs with fluorine at either side of the double bond and a pentafluoro analog were essentially inactive. Comparison of the pheromonal activity of these analogs with the previously reported activity of similarly fluorinated pheromones in five other species of moths revealed an unpredictable relationship between fluorine substitution pattern and pheromone-mimicking activity. Fluorine substitution pat terns that rendered pheromonal analogs biologically inactive in the European corn borer had no detrimental influence upon pheromonal activity in other species and the converse was also true. This is evidence that the relative importance of electronic qualities of sites within a pheromone molecule differ from species to species. Furthermore, it indicates that the biochemical components (pheromone receptor proteins, binding proteins, and enzymes) that make up moth olfactory chemosensory systems must also vary structurally from species to species, despite the fact that they are involved in olfactory sensing of compounds having very similar chemical structure.
Insect pheromones and their analogs. XIII. Synthesis of dodec-8E-enyl and dodec-8Z-enyl acetates ? Components of the sex pheromones ofGrapholitha funebrana andGrapholitha molesta
作者:V. N. Odinokov、G. Yu. Ishmuratov、G. G. Balezina、G. A. Tolstikov
DOI:10.1007/bf00574216
日期:——
converted with the aid of sodium in liquid ammonia into the stereochemical individual dodec-8E-enol, while its reduction with the aid of 9-borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane (BBN) gave the steroisomeric alcohol exclusively with the Z configuration, as followed from the results of capillary GLC and the IR spectra of the corresponding acetates. The PMR spectra of the compounds synthesized are also given.
Synthesis of aliphatic insect pheromones from alicyclic starting materials
作者:K. Mori、M. Uchida、M. Matsui
DOI:10.1016/0040-4020(77)80091-4
日期:1977.1
Both (Z)-6-heneicosen-11-one, the pheromone of Douglas fir tussock moth, and (Z)-8-dodecenyl acetate, the pheromone of oriental fruit moth, have been synthesized from cyclohexane-1,3-dione.