SUBSTITUIERTE ALKENE UND VERFAHREN ZU IHRER HERSTELLUNG

• Main Author: LEOPOLD, ERIC JAN, PALO ALTO, CALIF. (V.ST.A.)
• Format: Patent
• Language: German
• Published: 21.11.1974
• Subjects: ACYCLIC OR CARBOCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; ACYCLIC, CARBOCYCLIC OR HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS CONTAININGELEMENTS OTHER THAN CARBON, HYDROGEN, HALOGEN, OXYGEN, NITROGEN,SULFUR, SELENIUM OR TELLURIUM; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; APPARATUS THEREFOR; BIOCIDES, e.g. AS DISINFECTANTS, AS PESTICIDES, AS HERBICIDES; CHEMISTRY; FISHING; FORESTRY; GENERAL METHODS OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HUNTING; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PEST REPELLANTS OR ATTRACTANTS; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PRESERVATION OF BODIES OF HUMANS OR ANIMALS OR PLANTS OR PARTSTHEREOF; TRAPPING

Novel 1,7-dienes and addition products thereof possessing juvenile hormone-like activity have been prepared. Such a compound is one having the formula Z1Z2 ¦¦ Y-CH=CH-CH2CHCH2CH2CH-C-R3 ¦¦ R1R2 wherein each of R1, R2 and R3 can be hydrogen or C1-C3 alkyl, and Z1 and Z2 separately can be hydrogen or halogen or together can be a carbon to carbon bond, and Y is thienyl, furyl, naphthyl, phenyl or phenyl substituted by one or two substituents selected from chloro, bromo, fluoro, carboethoxy, cyano, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C3 alkoxy, nitro, methylenedioxy, ethylenedioxy, dimethylamino or diethylamino. A compound exemplary of my invention is 4,8-dimethyl-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)-1,7-nonadiene.