Methylhydroquinone → Methyl-1,4-benzoquinone

HRID 1074900Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1074900 reaction equation
[CH3:1][C:2]1[CH:8]=[C:7]([OH:9])[CH:6]=[CH:5][C:3]=1[OH:4].Cl[O-]>C(Cl)(Cl)Cl>[CH3:1][C:2]1[C:3](=[O:4])[CH:5]=[CH:6][C:7](=[O:9])[CH:8]=1

Participants

4

Reactant 2

HCID 7253MethylhydroquinoneHCID 61739Hypochlorite

Product 1

HCID 11122Methyl-1,4-benzoquinone

Reagents, catalysts & solvents 1

HCID 6212ChloroformSolvent

Procedure

2-methyl hydroquinone (1b) of 3.0 g (24 mmol) is dissolved in 150 ml of chloroform, wherein 100 ml each of hypochloride solution which have been so prepared as mentioned above are added and each reaction is made in the same way as described in Example 1, and then 2-methyl benzoquinone (IIb) is obtained. Table below shows the yields of isolation corresponding to each case of the investigation:

Workup

  1. additionabove are added

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-054885253cbc4b59beba4cc150ab1079
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1983_07
Patent number
US04394315

Reaction notes

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