A new general scheme for the preparation of Royal Jelly acid and Queen Substance of Honey-bee, including, as the key steps, copper I catalyzed addition of functional (protected alcohol and ketone) Grignard reagents to acrolein diethylacetal, and the Wittig-Horner reaction of unprotected 8-hydroxyoctanal and 7-oxo-octanal with triethylphosphonoacetate in water, in the presence of potassium carbonate.
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