Acid-Catalyzed Dehydration of Substituted Dienediols

CT Wigal, JD McKinley, J Coyle, DJ Porter…

Index: Wigal, Carl T.; McKinley, Jason D.; Coyle, Jennifer; Porter, Diane J.; Lehman, Daniel E. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1995 , vol. 60, # 26 p. 8421 - 8423

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Abstract

Quinones react with excess alkyllithium to give dienediols as adducts. 1, 2 Recently, the acid- catalyzed dehydration of these adducts was reported as a synthetic pathway for the preparation of 2, 4-dialkylphenol~.~ While this dehydration reaction has potential for regiospecific synthesis of polysubstituted phenols, which are widely used as antioxidants and stabilizer^,^ the only dienediols studied to date have been derived from ...