Kuwahara, Shigefumi; Tsuruta, Tomoko; Leal, WS; Kodama, Osamu

Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry [Biosci., Biotechnol., Biochem.], vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 1261-1263, Jun 1998

Both enantiomers of 15-hexadecanolide, a sex pheromone component of the stink bug (Piezodorus hybneri), were synthesized by using the Yamaguchi or Mitsunobu macrolactonization reaction of (R)-15-hydroxyhexadecanoic acid prepared from ethyl (R)- beta -hydroxybutyrate in 5 steps.