Pheromone volume

The Chemistry of Pheromones and Other Semiochemicals I Volume Editor Schulz, S. 

The first volume ends with a chapter by G. Pohnert on chemical defence in the marine environment. Defense compounds, which can be regarded as allomones, are often, but not always, more complex than other semiochemicals and may have unique modes of action. The biological mechanisms are not always easy to unravel, which is shown by some of examples. The reader may be tempted to compare the chemical complexity with that of terrestrial insect defence, which can be found in the second volume chapter by D. Daloze and J.-C. Braekman. Insects thus do not only produce interesting pheromones, but also complex allelochemicals for their own protection. 

The second volume starts with biochemistry and new insights into pheromone perception and transport by W. Leal. These findings show that specificity is not only achieved by uniquenss of compounds or blends, but also by the perceiving receptors and transport molecules. The following chapters on bugs... 

The authors then used a modification of their Lipase-AK route to produce the natural enantiomer, as described in detail in the chapter by Kenji Mori in this volume. Instead of using the enzyme to execute a stereoselective monohydrolysis of meso diacetate 140, the enzyme was used to esterify selectively one of the hydroxy groups of meso diol 128, resulting in the antipodal hydroxyester. After oxidation of the free hydroxyl to the acid, and recrystallization of its salt with (JR)-l-naphthylethylamine, the purified acid was then carried through the remaining steps to furnish the chiral pheromone compound (see the chapter by Kenji Mori in this volume). 

While the pheromones of Tenebrio and Tribolium originate from a mixed biosynthesis, those produced by males of the broad horned flour beetle, Gnatho-cerus cornutus, represent true terpenes. Initially, the configuration of this new pheromone had been erroneously proposed to be (IR,4R,5S) a-acoradiene [325] however, independent syntheses of pure stereoisomers [326,327] proved the correct structure to show (lS,4A,5A)-configuration 165. The scope of the synthesis is shown by Mori (see chapter by Mori in volume 1 and [15]). A minor component of the G. cornutus was reported to be a-cedren-14-al 166 [328]. 

Dulka, J. G., Stacey N. E., and Sorenson, P. W. (1986). A gonadal sex steroid 17oc-20p-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one, acts as a pheromone to rapidly increase gonadotropin and milt volume in male goldfish Carassius auratus. Society forNeuroscienceAbstracts 12, 1413. 

Chapters in this volume consider how plants use chemicals to defend themselves from insect herbivores the complexity of floral odors that mediate insect pollination tritrophic interactions of plants, herbivores, and parasitoids, and the chemical cues that parasitoids use to find their herbivore hosts the semiochemically mediated behaviors of mites pheromone communication in spiders and cockroaches the ecological dependence of tiger moths on the chemistry of their host plants and the selective forces that shape the pheromone communication channel of moths. 

Zweig, G. ed. Analytical Methods for Pesticides and Plant Growth Regulators. New York Academic Press. (This was a multi-volume series appearing between 1973 and 1989 that contains analytical methods for the analysis of food and food additives, fungicides, herbicides, nemati-cides, pheromones, rodenticides, and soil fumigants.)... 

The chapters in this volume examine the state of the art of the development of effective chemical and biological agents, as well as the unique application problems not encountered in conventional agricultural situations. The effectiveness of pesticides or pheromone technology in combating forest pests is not the only determinant. Factors peculiar to the forest situation, including the delicate balance of the ecosystem, must be considered in both the development and application stages of all control tactics. 

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