Structure determination of a new juvenile hormone from a heteropteran insect
Toyomi Kotaki1, Tetsuro Shinada, Kanako Kaihara
1National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8634, Japan. kotaki@affrc.go.jp
Organic Letters
|October 30, 2009
Abstract:
The structure of the juvenile hormone (JH) in the suborder Heteroptera, order Hemiptera, has been known for a very long time to be different from the JH of other orders, but the structure has been a matter of controversy. The structure was first elucidated by an unprecedented approach involving the screening of a JH molecular library. The novel Heteroptera-specific JH (JHSB(3)) is a new category of JH that is featured by the skipped bisepoxide structure.
