Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... A versatile synthesis of hydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone-2-carboxylic acids. ... Islandicin, a mould metabolite, can be synthesised in a few, robust, high yielding steps. This procedure can be further elaborated to give a variety of hydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone-2-carboxylic acids.