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SYNLETT
Volume 30, Issue 16, Pages 1899-1903Publisher
GEORG THIEME VERLAG KG
DOI: 10.1055/s-0039-1690131
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pheromone; sandfly; verticillenes; metabolite; taxadiene
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- School of Chemistry at The University of Nottingham
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The sex-aggregation pheromone sobralene produced by the sandfly Lutzomyia longipalpis is isomerised to verticillenes in the presence of mild acid, thereby providing credence to the proposal that sobralene is a likely shunt metabolite of the taxadiene synthase cascade.
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