Structures of homofarnesene and bishomofarnesene isomers from Myrmica ants
- 1 January 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 4,p. 949-951
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19820000949
Abstract
The homofarnesene and bishomofarnesene isomers from Dufour glands of Myrmica ants have been identified by degradation as 7-ethyl-3,11-dimethyldodeca-1,3,6,10-tetraene (2), and 7-ethyl-3,11-dimethyltrideca-1,3,6,10-tetraene (3).This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- A chemical study of the Dufour glands of two attine antsInsect Biochemistry, 1980