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From (S)-(+)-3,7-dimethylocta-1,6-diene there has been synthesized (S)-(+)-3-methyl-heneicosan-2-one, a biologically active analog of the sex pheromone of the German cockroachBlatella germanica.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 3, pp. 693–695, March, 1988.
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Khao, N.K., Mavrov, M.V. & Serebryakov, É.P. Terpenes in organic synthesis. 7. Synthesis of (S)-(+)-3-methylheneicosan-2-one from (s)-(+)-3,7-dimethylocta-1,6-diene. Russ Chem Bull 37, 592–594 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00965387
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