ORGN 671 |
| The pricipal approach to prevention of vector-borne diseases is avoidance; thus, the use of repellents against biting arthropods is highly recommended. GC-MS analysis of the low volatile defensive secretion from Suocerathrips linguis (a small inscet living on leaves of Sanseveria plants) revealed the presence of an hitherto unkown repellent, i.e. (11 Z)-11,19 eicosadienyl acetate (1). A convenient, high yield procedure for the synthesis of (1) has been developed. Compound (1) shows strong repellent activity against ants, whereas its (E)-analogue showed no repellent activity at all.
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Lipids, Nucleotides, and Mimetics
1:00 PM-4:40 PM, Wednesday, 13 September 2006 Moscone Center -- Room 131, Oral
Division of Organic Chemistry |
