Summary The condensation of β-ketonic esters with hydroquinone, quinacetophenone, 2- chloro-, 2-bromo-, 2-methyl-, and 2-ethylhydroquinones in presence of 73 per cent. sulphuric acid shows that the presence of acetyl and bromo groups exert inhibitory effect, while methyl and ethyl groups exert the accelerating effect on the Pechmann Reaction, when present in the hydroquinone molecule. The effect of chlorine group is to reduce the activity to a slight ...
[Nadkarni, K. K; Kamat, S. P.; Paknikar, S. K. Indian Journal of Chemistry, Section B: Organic Chemistry Including Medicinal Chemistry, 1994 , vol. 33, # 5 p. 432 - 435]