A comparative study of the synthetic paths from 1-butyne to 2E,4Z-heptadien-1-ol

2E,4Z-Heptadien-1-ol (1), the key intermediate in the synthesis of the grapevine moth sex pheromone, was obtained from 1-butyne by a number of alternative procedures, including various variants of the stereocontrolled building of the conjugatedE,Z-diene system (Cadiot—Chodkiewicz cross-coupling, alkyne—vinyl halide cross-coupling catalyzed by palladium complexes, anionotropic allylic rearrangement, partialcis- andtrans-reduction of the triple bond). None of them could provide for configurational uniformity of1. The most acceptable path to obtain1 in multigram amounts appears to be that which proceeds via the conjugated diynol and enynol intermediates with subsequent catalyticcis-hydrogenation.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 4, pp. 769–772, April, 1993.