Damaliscus dorcas

African alcelaphine bovids have interdigital glands only on their forefeet. So far chemical work has been done on the interdigital secretions of the bontebok, Damaliscus dorcas dorcas, and another subspecies, the blesbok, D. d. phillipsi, the gnu or black wildebeest, Connochaetes gnou, and the red hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus caama. 

Table 7 Compounds identified in the interdigital secretions of the bontebok, Damaliscus dorcas dorcas andblesbok, D. d.phillipsi [2]... 

A new route to 2-(52) and 3-(51)-(2-aminovinyl)indoles in excellent yield is provided by the reaction of 2- and 3-acylindoles with the carbanions of 1-aminoalkyldiphenylphosphine oxides (50) (Scheme 7).29 The previously established method of diene synthesis using tandem Wittig reactions of the phospholanium salt (53) has been applied to the synthesis of the sex pheromone (54) from the pedal gland of the bontebok (Damaliscus dorcas dorcas) and to various 1,4-diketones (Scheme 8).30... 

Pheromone from the pedal gland of the bontebok Damaliscus dorcas dorcas. 

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