Jasvinder A. Singh, A. Arora, Amarjit Kaur
1994
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Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications
Abstract
2-Methylheptadecane ( I ) is the sex pheromone of the family Arctiidae (tiger moth) and was isolated by Roelof and Carde and assigned structure I on the basis of spectral data. Haque et al. isolated a granular white solid (m.p. 80 °C) from the ether extract of dried and powdered plant of Parthenium hysterophorous L. ( Compositae ) and proposed its structure, 14-methylpentadecan-3-one ( II ) on the basis of spectroscopic data. We report herein a short and facile synthesis of these compounds.