A rapid and convenient synthesis of the sex pheromone of the Douglas fir lepidoptera Orgyia pseudotsugata

1 January 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1

No. 8,p. 842-844
https://doi.org/10.1039/p19780000842

Abstract

(Z)-Heneicos-6-en-11-one (5) has been synthesized in four steps from 2-hydroxytetrahydropyran, with an overall yield of 51%. The key step, a Wittig reaction, was found to be practically stereospecific (>98%).

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