Production of (5 R, 6 S)-6-Acetoxy-5-hexadecanolide, the Mosquito Oviposition Pheromone, from the Seed Oil of the Summer Cypress Plant, Kochia scoparia ( …

…, MA Birkett, AJ Mordue (Lunt, JA Pickett

Index: Olagbemiro, Timothy O.; Birkett, Michael A.; Mordue, A. Jennifer; Pickett, John A. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 1999 , vol. 47, # 8 p. 3411 - 3415

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Abstract

The oviposition pheromone for the pathogen-vectoring mosquitoes in the genus Culex (Diptera: Culicidae), that is,(5 R, 6 S)-6-acetoxy-5-hexadecanolide, is efficiently synthesized, in admixture with the inactive (5 S, 6 R) enantiomer (~ 33% w/w), from the fixed oil extracted from the seeds of the summer cypress plant, Kochia scoparia (Chenopodiaceae), cultivated on an industrial scale. Oviposition bioassays using gravid females of Culex ...