摘要:
According to the synthetic route for 11,12-methylenehexadec-11-enoic acid [10-(2-butyl-1-cyclopropenyl)decanoic acid] and the amide, their related cyclopropene compounds, which possessed a propene ring at the 7,8-, 9,10-, or 13,14-position in a C-16 chain and the 11,12-position in a C-14 or C-18 chain, were synthesized via the corresponding 1-alkyl-1,2,2-tribromocyclopropane. Their activities as biosynthetic inhibitors of bombykol [(10E,12Z)-10,12-hexadecadien-1-ol; sex pheromone of the silkworm moth Bombyx mori L.] were measured with virgin female silkworm moths in vivo. The 7,8-methylene compounds were inactive even at the dose of 10 mu g/gland, but other compounds at 1 mu g/gland inhibited the conversion of [16,16, 16-H-2(3)]hexadecanoic acid to bombykol to some extent. Each amide showed stronger inhibitory activity than the corresponding acid, and the 11,12-methylene amide with a C-16 chain was the strongest (I-50 = 0.016 mu g/gland) among the tested compounds. Furthermore, experiments comparing the incorporation of [1-C-14]hexadecanoic acid into bombykol and another alcohol component in the pheromone gland, (Z)-11-hexadecen-1-ol, suggested that the all-desaturation was blocked by 9,10- and 11,12-methylene compounds and the subsequent Delta 10,- 12-desaturation by 11,12- and 13,14-methylene compounds.