You have just been hired by Triple Bond, Inc., a company that specializes in the manufacture of
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You have just been hired by Triple Bond, Inc., a company that specializes in the manufacture of alkynes containing five or fewer carbons. The President, Mr. Al Kyne, needs an outlet for the company’s products. You have been asked to develop a synthesis of the housefly sex pheromone, muscalure, with the stipulation that all of the carbon in the product must come only from the company’s alkynes.
The muscalure will subsequently be used in a household fly trap. You will be equipped with a laboratory containing all of the company’s alkynes, requisition forms for other reagents, and one gross of fly swatters in case you are successful.
Outline a preparation of racemic muscalure that meets the company’s needs.
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Because muscalure is a cisalkene we can prepare it by hydrogenation of an alkyne The required alkyne ...View the full answer
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