Recently, there has been considerable interest in the area of high strength liquid crystallhe polymers such as poly [p-phenylenebenzobis (oxazole)](PBO).* We wanted to evaluate the trans-isomer (2) for comparison and needed multi-gram quantities of 2, 5-diamino-l, 4- benzenediol (5), the precursor of 2. The synthetic route* s3 for compound 5 involves four steps starting from nn
