Abstract: | A new synthesis of 2,6-dimethylhepta-1,6-dien-3-ol acetate (I) — the sex attractant of The Comstock mealybug — has been developed.Institute of Chemistry, Bashkir Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Ufa. N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 259–261, March–April, 1985. |