Tetrahedron Letters

Insect chemistry. Application of the norrish type-I reaction to the synthesis of propylure, the sexual pheromone of pectinophora gossypiella saunders.

J Kossanyi, B Furth, JP Morizur

Index: Kossanyi,J. et al. Tetrahedron Letters, 1973 , p. 3459 - 3462

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Abstract

Photochemistry has been shown to be a powerful synthetic method for functionalizing molecules. The photochemical ring opening of cyclanones (Norrish type-I) into non- conjugated unsaturated aldehydes can be used, as a key reaction step, in the approach of