Antifeedant and mosquitocidal compounds from Delphinium x cultorum cv. Magic fountains flowers

J Agric Food Chem. 2000 Feb;48(2):503-6. doi: 10.1021/jf990354d.

Abstract

Six volatile compounds, ethylmethylbenzene (1), 1-isopentyl-2,4, 5-trimethylbenzene (2), 2-(hex-3-ene-2-one)phenylmethyl ketone (3), E and Z isomers of 3-butylidene-3H-isobenzofuran-1-one (4 and 5), and 2-penten-1-ylbenzoic acid (6), were isolated from the mosquitocidal hexane extract of Delphinium x cultorum cv. Magic Fountains flowers. In addition, the ethyl acetate extract, which displayed corn earworm antifeedant activity, yielded 4-hydroxybenzoic acid (7) and bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)methanol (8). However, compounds 7 and 8 were not biologically active.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Culicidae / drug effects*
  • Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
  • Insecticides / chemistry*
  • Magnoliopsida / chemistry*
  • Models, Chemical
  • Moths / drug effects

Substances

  • Insecticides