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Science 22 May 1970:
Vol. 168. no. 3934, p. 992
DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3934.992
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Autoxidation of Insect Lipids: Inhibition on the Cuticle of the American Cockroach

P. W. Atkinson 1 and A. R. Gilby 1

1 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Division of Entomology, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 2601

The major hydrocarbon, cis, cis-6,9-heptacosadiene, of Periplaneta americana cuticles and oothecae solidifies in air by autoxidation. The reaction resembles the autoxidation of other dienes by known free radical mechanisms and yields stearic acid, stearal, hexanoic acid, and hexanal. On the cuticle, autoxidation is inhibited by polyhydric phenols.


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