Department of Chemistry, Punjab University, Chandigarh, 160 014, India
Online published on 15 December, 2011.
Some long chain aromatic hydrocarbons have been prepared by the alkylauon of aromatic bromides with long chain carbonyl compounds using tandem phenylation-reduction. These hydrocarbons have been effected at the terminal double bond to prepare mono-oxirane, dihalomethylene, bis-dihalomethylene and chloro derivatives. All the compounds synthesized were tested for their JH activity on Dysdercus koenigii Fabricus. 5,9-Dimethyl-5,9- dichloro-1-naphthyl-decane (XVD was found to be the most active compound.
