Queen’s substance

Queen butterfly pheromone, 79 Queen s substance, 217 Quinine, 80, 501 Quinol acetates, 314-315 QuinoUne, 383, 498, 619, 621 Quinoline—Acetic acid, 501 Quinolineearboxylic acids, 450 p-Quinols, 428-429 Quinomycin, 193 Quinones, 120, 121, 555, 556 Quinonimines, 513... 

The language used will be the Queen s English or that subset of it as approved by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Where chemical names are concerned there are some lost causes, such as caustic soda, where little would be gained if those who clean factories called this substance sodium hydroxide. Arguably, the name caustic soda conveys more useful information. Similar lost causes are spirits of wine (ethyl alcohol or ethanol) and spirits of salts (hydrochloric acid). While lipid chemists may insist on referring to triacylglycerols many people in industry continue to refer to triglycerides. Similarly trivial names for fatty acids such as lauric will continue to be used. The principle in all of this is to use the proper name but to mention other names that are in common use. 

The chemical information channel is especially vital for social insects. The nearly ideal social order in a beehive is perpetuated as long as the honeybee s queen maintains the ability to produce a very simple aliphatic compound, ( )-9-oxo-2-decenoic acid 20 ( queen substance ).This multipurpose compound... 

The queen stands upon a yellow substance or light, on which there appears the profile of a man s head. It might remind us of Plate TIO, where the golden head has been severed from the torso. The profile in the alembic, however, refers to an individual man whose mental faculties and skills are now at the service of the Feminine Principle of relatedness rather than an end-in-themselves or a source of power or dominance. 

Zur Herstellung von, Royal jelly acid" und Queen substance" iiber Malonsaure-diester und 3-Oxo-butansaure-ester-Synthesen s. K. Yokoiu. K Matsubara, Nippon Kagaku Kaishi 1978,1415 C. A. 90, 22266 (1979). 

Butler, C.G., Callow, R.K. and Johnston, N.C. (1961). The isolation and synthesis of queen substance, 9-oxodec-fra s-2-enoic acid, a honeybee pheromone. Proc. R. Entomol. Soc. 155,417-432. 

Queen substance. A secretion from the mandibular glands of queen bees having various fimctions Q. s. inhibits the development of ovaries in worker bees, inhibits the development of queen cells, and attracts male bees to inseminate young queen bees. It consists of five different compounds. 2-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxy-phenyl)ethanol (A) methyl 4-hydroxybenzoate (B) ... 

The queen substance , which inhibits conversion of larvae to queens, and is secreted by the mandibular gland in the queen bee s head, is 9-oxodec-/rflWJ-2-enoic acid ... 

Lofqvist, J., and G. Bergstrom Volatile Communication Substances in Dufour s Gland of Virgin Females and Old Queens of the Ant Formica polyctena. J. Chem. Ecol. 6, 309-320 (1980). 

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