Abstract

The principal (9, 27) and minor (17, 28) sex pheromone components of both, the Douglas fir tussock moth ( Orgyia pseudotsugata ) and the peach fruit moth ( Carposina niponensis ), have been synthesized in four steps each, using the chain-lengtheningdifunctionalisation of Grignard reagents by reaction with ketenylidenetriphenylphosphorane as the key step.

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