Oxidative coupling of furans and naphthoquinones: a potential route to anthracyclinones
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 9,p. 413-414
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39800000413
Abstract
2-Furyl-1,4-naphthoquinones have been prepared by treatment of mixtures of furans and naphthoquinones with chloranil and other oxidants, and used to synthesize quinizarin and 6,11-dihydroxynaphthacene-5,12-dione in a reaction sequence which promises great versatility.Keywords
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