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Review
. 2022 Mar 17:10:882400.
doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.882400. eCollection 2022.

Sex Pheromones of the Potato Tuber Moth (Phthorimaea operculella)

Huanhuan Pan  1 , Hongyi Zhao  1 , Likun Ai  1 , Jian Huang  1 , Yang Chen  1
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Sex Pheromones of the Potato Tuber Moth (Phthorimaea operculella)

Huanhuan Pan et al. Front Chem. .

Abstract

The potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella) is a major potato pest. Its sex pheromones contain two chemical structures: 4E,7Z-tridecadiene-1-ol acetate (PTM1) and 4E,7Z,10Z-tridecatriene-1-ol acetate (PTM2). Increasing global consciousness of environmental protection is driving widespread attention to the possible use of these pheromones for sustainable pest management. This review summarizes research on the structure confirmation, field application, and chemical synthesis of the sex pheromones of the potato tuber moth. An efficient synthesis strategy of the two sex pheromones is proposed.

Keywords: biological control; natural products; potato tuber moth (Phthorimaea operculella); sex pheromones; synthesis.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
I Statistics of the number of research papers on insect sex pheromone from web of science. II Chemical structure of sex pheromone of potato tuber moth. III Synthesis of sex pheromone analogues of potato tuber moth by Fouda in 1975. IV Roelofs’ synthesis of PTM1 in 1975. V Voerman’s synthesis of PTM1 in 1978. VI Alexakis’s synthesis of PTM1 in 1978. VII Nishiyama’s synthesis of PTM1 in 1984. VIII Yadav’s synthesis of PTM1 in 1986.
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
I Nonashita’s synthesis of PTM1 via Claisen rearrangement in 1990. II Hutzinger’s synthesis of PTM1 in1995. III Vasil’ev’s synthesis of PTM1 in 1996. IV Odiokov’s synthesis of PTM1 in 1997. V Vakhidov’s synthesis of PTM1 in 2007. VI Voerman’s synthesis of PTM2 in 1978. VII Fukami’s synthesis of PTM2 in 1978. VIII Our group’s synthesis of PTM1 and PTM2 via Stille coupling in 2021.
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