Abstract

Structure-activity relationships for 28 analogues of (Z)-5-decenyl acetate, a sex pheromone component of the turnip moth Agrotis segetum, have been studied.Synthesis and conformational analysis of chain-elongated, chain-shortened, alkyne, alkenyne, diene and cyclic analogues, and configurational isomers are presented.A conformational-energy model for the interaction of a pheromone component with its receptor cell has been developed and tested.The model is shown to correlate measured electrophysiological single-cell activities with conformational energies calculated by the molecular mechanics (MM2/MMP2) method.A biologically active conformation of the natural pheromone component, (Z)-5-decenyl acetate, is suggested.

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ISBN: 9907128066
Publisher: Lund University

UKÄ Subject classification

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology


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