Australian journal of chemistry

5-Isopropyl-3-methylbenzene-1, 2-diol

RM Carman

Index: Carman, Raymond M.; Dongen, Jacobus M. A. M. Van Australian Journal of Chemistry, 1984 , vol. 37, # 12 p. 2607 - 2610

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Abstract

Introduction The diterpenoid (I), in chiral form, occurs in the heartwood of Callitris macleayana.' Compound (I), a Diels-Alder self-dimer of the dienone (2), readily undergoes a retro-Diels-Alder pyrolysis to give, as major product, a compound (3) (Cl,Hl,O,) which has a mass