Abstract
Two homologous series of trimethylalkanes, the 3,7,11-trimethylalkanes (C 34H 7), C 36H 74 and C 38H 78) and the 4,8,12-trimethylalkanes (C 35H 72, C 37H 76 and C 39H 80) are the major constituents of the cuticular alkanes of the ant, Atta colombica. Each of these structures combines a reduced polyketomethylene chain and a modified isoprenoid chain, and hence combine structural units from two major metabolic pathways. Hydrocarbons of this type have not been previously isolated from natural sources.
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