Journal of the Chemical Society (Resumed)

The pigments of “dragon's blood” resin. Part VI. 3: 5-Dihydroxydiphenyl ether

NB Dean, WB Whalley

Index: Dean; Whalley Journal of the Chemical Society, 1954 , p. 4638,4640

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Citation Number: 9

Abstract

THE cyclisation of the diphenyl ether (I; R= CH, COPh), prepared from, eg,(I; R= OH) or (I; R= Me), should lead to a model compound of the dracorubin type, but the exploratory experiments now described have led us to abandon this route, mainly because of the