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From geraniol via 8-oxocitral, leaf beetle larvae produce dialdehydes such as 1 by a route analogous to the biosynthesis of iridoids in plants. The dialdehydes can be subsequently cyclized in surprisingly diverse ways to give iridodials, as shown by the investigations of three types of these insect larvae.
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Lorenz et al. (1993) studied this question.
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