Letters in Organic Chemistry

InCl3· 4H2O-Catalyzed Trioxane as a New Methylating Agent for multi-Methylated Aromatics Affording Hexamethyl Benzene

SJ Chen, R Hua

Index: Chen, Song-Jie; Hua, Ruimao Letters in Organic Chemistry, 2010 , vol. 7, # 1 p. 61 - 63

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Abstract

In the presence of a catalytic amount of InCl3· 4H2O, trioxane was first used as the methylating agent for multimethylated aromatic compounds such as pentamethylbenzene, 1, 2, 4, 5-tetramethylbenzene and 1, 3, 5-trimethylbenzene to afford hexamethylbenzene in fair