New stereospecific synthetic routes to farnesol and its derivatives, including a biologically active position isomer of C17 Cecropia juvenile hormone

Stereospecific synthesis of a biological

Stereospecific synthesis of a biologically active dehydro derivative of the C18-juvenile hormone of cecropia. New routes to a key C12-intermediate

✍ E.J. Corey; John A. Katzenellenbogen; Steven A. Roman; Norman W. Gilman 📂 Article 📅 1971 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 French ⚖ 229 KB

Two different stereospecific syntheses of tbe Cl8 -insect hormone of Cecropia have been reported from this Laboratory previously (1,2). A critical intermediate in the first of these is 3-ethyl-'l-metbyl- We now outliue two new stereospecific routes to this interesting bomo-trans, cis-2,6-nonadien-