Sugar-fermenting yeast as an organic source of carbon dioxide to attract the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae

Malaria Journal

Table 8 Preliminary data of volatile organic compounds found to be more present in headspace samples of yeast-sugar solutions (2 or 28 h post mixing) than in background samples (order of compounds based on retention time on a DB-5 column)

Compound	Yeast sample	Human emanation references
ethanol	2 h, 28 h	[54–56]
2-methylpropanal	2 h	[57]
ethyl acetate	2 h, 28 h	[56]
2-methyl-1-propanol	2 h, 28 h	[54]
3-methylbutanal	28 h	[46, 58, 59]
1-pentanol	28 h	[55]
3-hydroxy-2-butanone	2 h	[46, 55]
3-methyl-1-butanol	2 h, 28 h	[46, 55]
2-methylpropanoic acid	2 h, 28 h	[60, 61]
3-methylbutanoic acid	2 h	[46, 55, 60–62]
benzeneethanol	2 h, 28 h	[46, 57, 62, 63]
isobutyl ester of ethanoic acid	28 h
ethyl 2-methylbutanoate	28 h	[55]
ethyl 3-methylbutanoate	28 h	[55]
3-methylbutyl acetate	28 h
2-methylbutyl acetate	28 h
ethyl ester of hexanoic acid	28 h
1-dodecene	28 h	[63]
ethyl ester of octanoic acid	28 h
ethyl ester of decanoic acid	28 h
isopentyl ester of octanoic acid	28 h

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