Insect pheromones and their analogs LV. Synthesis of trideca-4E, 7Z-dien-1-YL acetate-component of the sex pheromone ofPhthorimaea opercucella

Starting from propargyl alcohol and using the thermal Claisen rearrangement at the stage of constructing the (E)-double bond, we have synthesized trideca-4E, 7Z-dien-1-yl acetate— a component of the sex pheromone of the potato mothPhthorimaea opercucella (Zeller).Scientific-Research Institute of Fine Organic Synthesis, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa. Ufa State University of Petroleum Technology. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 452–455, May–June, 1997.