The chemistry of fungi. Part 77. The synthesis of benzophenones from phthalides : X-ray crystallographic definition of a novel isobenzofuran system
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- No. 11,p. 2445-2449
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19800002445
Abstract
Reduction of 3,6-dimethoxy-4-methylphthalic anhydride gave a mixture of 3,6-dimethoxy-4-methyl-(1; R1= H, R2= Me) and 3,6-dimethoxy-5-methyl-(1; R1= Me, R2= H) phthalide. The condensation of 2,6-dimthoxylithiobenzene with phthalides gives the corresponding 2′-hydroxymethyl-2,6-dimethoxybenzophenones. Treatment of 6-acetoxymethyl-2,5-dibenzyloxy-2′,6′-dimethoxy-4-methylbenzophenone (11; R = H) with boron trichloride gives 1-(2-hydroxy-6-methoxyphenyl)-5-methyl-4,7-dioxo-4,7-dihydroisobenzofuran (13; R = H), the structure of which was defined by X-ray analysis. The crystals are monoclinic, space group P21 with two molecules in a unit cell of dimensions a= 10.818(1), b= 7.752(1), c= 7.808(3)Å, and β= 90.28(1)°. The structure was solved by the direct method using 1 257 reflections and refined by full-matrix least-squares calculations to R= 0.053.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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