Further insight into the reaction of electrogenerated o-quinone with amino-alcohols and amines. Products and mechanism

M Largeron, A Neudorffer, MB Fleury

Index: Largeron, Martine; Neudorffer, Anne; Fleury, Maurice-Bernard Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin Transactions 2, 1998 , # 12 p. 2721 - 2727

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Abstract

Using 2, 3, 4-trihydroxybenzophenone as the starting material, the reaction of the electrogenerated 3, 4-quinone with amino-alcohols and amines HC (R1, R2)–NH2 is suggested to proceed via an ionic mechanism that would involve a C (3) aminated carbinolamine intermediate and would afford, after dehydration, a 3, 4-iminoquinone species. The subsequent step would consist either of a transamination reaction, or of the ...