The relative and absoluted configuration of the male-produce aggregtation pheromones of the African plam weevil and the Asian palm weevil was determined by racemic and chiral synthesis of the proposed structures.
4. "Synthesis of the Stereoisomers of 3-Methyl-4-octanol to Determine the Absolute Configuration of the Naturally Occuring (4S,5S) Isomer Isolated as the Male-produced Pheromone Compound of Rhynchophorus vulneratus and Metamasius hemipterus"
K. Mori, H. Kiyota and D. Rochat, Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1993, 865-870 (1993).
3. "Synthesis of the Enantiomers of syn-4-Methyl-5-nonanol to Determine the Absolute Configuraion of the Naturally Occuring (3S,4S)-Isomer Isolated as the Male-produced Aggregation Pheromone of the African Plam Weevil, Rhynchophorus phoenicis"
K. Mori, H. Kiyota, C. Malosse and D. Rochat, Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1993, 1201-1204 (1993).
endo-Brevicomin
(+)-endo-Brevicomin, the pheromone of the bark beetles such as western pine beetle、southern pine beetle and mountain pine beetle, was synthesized using lipase-catalyzed asymmetric acetylation as the key step.
2. "A New Synthesis of (3S, 4R)-8-Nonene-3,4-diol, the Key Intermediate for the Synthesis of (+)-endo-Brevicomin"
K. Mori and H. Kiyota, Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1992, 989-992 (1992).
A sex pheromone of a wasp
A sex pheromone component for the wasp, Macrocentrus grandii, was synthesized by starting from methyl (R)-citronellate and employing bromolactonization as the key reaction.
6. "Synthesis of (2S,4R,5S)-2,4,6-Trimethyl-5-heptanolide, a Sex Pheromone Component for Macrocentrus grandii"
H. Kiyota and K. Mori, Biosci. Biotech. Biochem., 58(6), 1120-1122 (1994).
A sex pheromone of maritime pine scale
A major component of the female-produced sex pheromone of the maritime pine scale (Matsucoccus feytaudi) was synthesized using enzyme-catalyzed asymmetric hydrolysis as the key step.
8. "A New Synthesis of (3S,7R,8E,10E)-3,7,9-Trimethyl-8,10-dodecadien-6-one, the Major Component of the Sex Pheromone of the Maritime Pine Scale"
K. Mori, T. Furuuchi and H. Kiyota, Liebigs Annalen der Chemie, 1994, 971-974 (1994).
