Syntheses of four methyl-branched secondary acetates and a methyl-branched ketone as possible candidates for the female pheromone of the screwworm fly, cochliomyia hominivorax

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1164-1169

  Furukawa, Ayako ^a   Shibata, Chié ^a   Mori, Kenji ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cochliomyia hominivorax; Methyl branched ketone; Methyl branched secondary acetate; Pheromone; Screwworm fly

Indexed keywords

COCHLIOMYIA; COCHLIOMYIA HOMINIVORAX;

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; KETONE; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLY; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNTHESIS;

ACETATES; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEMALE; KETONES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED;

EID: 0036561179     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.66.1164     Document Type: Article

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