Acetone → 2,6-Dihydroxynaphthalene

Reaction equation

[CH3:1][C:2]([CH3:4])=[O:3].[CH3:5][CH:6]([CH2:8][C:9]([CH3:11])=[O:10])[CH3:7].[CH3:12]C(C)=O>>[OH:3][C:2]1[CH:4]=[CH:7][C:6]2[C:5](=[CH:12][CH:11]=[C:9]([OH:10])[CH:8]=2)[CH:1]=1

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 180Acetone

HCID 18671121MIBK acetone

Product 1

HCID 935522,6-Dihydroxynaphthalene

Procedure

Sixty parts by weight of acetone was added to 100 parts by weight of the oily phase containing the oxidation product obtained in Example 8, (1) to prepare an MIBK/acetone mixed oily phase which was subjected to acid cleavage by the following method to obtain 2,6-dihydroxynaphthalene.

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-c8d800a2a68e4214a68488536c41fcff
Source dataset: uspto-grants-1991_02
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US04996372

Reaction notes

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