Wehave already reported the anti-juvenile hormone (anti-JH) activity of a number of 1,5disubstituted imidazoles with a JH-like terpene chain in silkworm, Bombyxmori, larvae.1'2) These imidazole compounds induced unequivocal precocious metamorphosis, which was clearly recognized as a JH-deficiency symptom.31 Tworepresentative compounds, name-
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