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Facile conversion of para-benzoquinones to para-alkoxyphenols with primary/secondary alcohols and amberlyst-15: a process showing novel reducing property of …

R Mondal, C Guha, AK Mallik

Index: Mondal, Rina; Guha, Chayan; Mallik, Asok K. Tetrahedron Letters, 2014 , vol. 55, # 1 p. 86 - 89

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Abstract

Abstract A new efficient methodology has been developed for the synthesis of para- alkoxyphenols, an important group of anti-melanoma compounds, by heating alcoholic solutions of para-benzoquinones in the presence of amberlyst-15. The most notable feature here is the behaviour of the used primary or secondary alcohol as an effective reducing agent.