Synthesis of dodec-5E-en-1-ol — The pheromone of Tricimba cincta — And tetradec-5E-1-yl acetate — An imitator of the pheromone of Rhynchopacha sp.

On the basis of a modified Knoevenagel reaction starting from octanol and decanal, the stereodirected synthesis has been effected of dodec-5E-en-ol (the pheromone of the grass flyTricimba cincta — and tetradec-5E-en-yl acetate) an imitator of the pheromone of the mothRhynchopacha sp. A. S. Sadykov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 129–132, January–February, 1991.