[HN Gopher] Male Moth 'Aphrodisiac' Revealed
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       Male Moth 'Aphrodisiac' Revealed
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2023-08-02 00:17 UTC (22 hours ago)
        
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       | rolandog wrote:
       | Oh, interesting...
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       | I thought this was already known to be a blend of compounds with
       | ethyl trans-cinnamate [1] among them; I'll have to read up on it.
       | For a Workshop on Synthetic Organic Chemistry in college, my
       | class teammates and I had to come up with a process to synthesize
       | and "commercialize" that particular compound. We jokingly made a
       | hand cream that had the possible side effect of attracting a
       | swarm of female moths.
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       | [1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.214.4527.1359
        
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