Abstract: | A new scheme has been developed for the synthesis of dodeca-8E,10E-dien-1-ol (the sex pheromone of the codling moth) from sorbyl acetate, available from 4-propenyl-1,3-dioxane through the intermediate diacetate of 3 propenyl-2-oxapentane-1, 5-diol.Scientific Research Institite of Fine Organic Synthesis, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa. Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp 602–604, July–August, 1996. Original article submitted January 29, 1996. |