Pheromones of insects and their analogs LIV. Synthesis of dodec-9E-en-1-ol and its acetate —components of the sex pheromone ofSparganothis pilleriana

Using the Claisen rearrangement in the construction of a double bond with the E configuration, we have synthesized dodec-9E-en-l-ol and its acetate, which are components of the sex pheromone ofSparganothis pilleriana.Scientific Research Institute of Fine Organic Synthesis of the Academy of Sciences, Republic of Belarus. Ufa State Petroleum Technical University. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 936–939, November–December, 1996. Original article submitted May 11, 1996.