Synthesis of deuterated fatty acids to investigate the biosynthetic pathway of disparlure, the sex pheromone of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar

Lipids

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 397-401

  Abad, José Luis ^a   Fabriàs, Gemma ^a   Camps, Francisco ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICAL BONDS; DEUTERIUM; FATTY ACIDS;

DEUTERATION; DISPARLURE; PHEROMONES;

LIPIDS;

DEUTERIUM; DISPARLURE; FATTY ACID; SEX PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATALYST; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOTH; NONHUMAN; REACTION ANALYSIS;

ALDEHYDES; ALKANES; ALKYNES; ANIMALS; DEUTERIUM; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOTHS; PROPANOLS; SEX ATTRACTANTS;

LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR;

EID: 3242789600     PISSN: 00244201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11745-004-1244-0     Document Type: Article

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