In order to develop novel biorational pesticides, twelve new ether derivatives of 1β,4α,6α,9α-tetrahydroxy-2β,12-epoxymethano-β-dihydroagarofuran (3) were synthesized. The structure of the important intermediate 3 was confirmed by X-ray crystallography, and the new derivatives (3.1–3.12) were elucidated by IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR and 2D NMR spectroscopic and ESI-MS analysis. Insecticidal activities of these derivatives were tested against the third-instar larvae of Mythimna separata. Though most of the derivatives (3.1–3.4, 3.6, 3.8, 3.9–3.12) revealed no obvious activities at the concentration of 10 mg/mL –1, two compounds 3.5 and 3.7, with KD50 values of 12.9 (μg/g-1 and 7.8 μg/g –1, respectively, showed much higher insecticidal activities than celangulin-V, with a KD50 of 321.4 μg·g–1, the main insecticidal component from the root bark of Chinese bittersweet, Celastrus angulatus Max. The results showed that β-dihydroagarofuran has the potential to be a lead structure for semi-synthetic green insecticides.
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