Chemistry of quinones. Part III. Cleavage of the methyl ethers of some naturally occurring hydroxyanthraquinones
- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1
- p. 2299-2302
- https://doi.org/10.1039/p19730002299
Abstract
The action of the reagent formed by adding water (3 equiv.) to potassium t-butoxide (10 equiv.) in 1,2-dimethoxyethane on the methyl ethers of a range of naturally occurring mono-, di-, and tri-hydroxy-β-methylanthraquinones has been studied. All the substrates containing at least one α-methoxy-substituent were cleaved to give mixtures of benzoic acids and/or phthalic acids in 42–82% yield.Keywords
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