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Science 12 February 1965:
Vol. 147. no. 3659, pp. 748 - 749
DOI: 10.1126/science.147.3659.748
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American Cockroach Sex Attractant

Martin Jacobson 1 and Morton Beroza 1

1 Entomology Research Division, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland

The structure (2,2-dimethyl-3-isopropylidenecyclopropyl propionate) previously assigned to the sex attractant of the American cockroach has now been shown by additional physical and chemical data and biological inactivity of the synthetic preparation to be incorrect. The structure of this attractant remains to be determined.

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