The Journal of Organic Chemistry

General regiospecific synthesis of annulated quinones

HW Moore, ST Perri

Index: Moore, Harold W.; Perri, Steven T. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1988 , vol. 53, # 5 p. 996 - 1003

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Abstract

Reported here are the details of a general, convergent, regiospecific and high-yield synthesis of annulated hydroquinones and quinones. lS2 It involves the thermal rearrangement of 4-aryl-4-hydroxycyclobutenones 1 to the corresopnding hydroquinones, which were generally not isolated as such but were directly converted to the corresponding quinones 2 or 3 via an oxidative workup. Scheme I provides an outline of this ...