Trimethylhydroquinone → 2,5-Cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione, 2,3,5-trimethyl-

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A suspension of 25.6 g of ferric chloride in 50 ml of water was added at room temperature to a solution of 20 g of trimethylhydroquinone in 150 ml of acetone, and the resulting mixture was stirred for 1 hour, after which it was allowed to stand for 2 days. At the end of this time, it was concentrated to about one half of its original volume, and the concentrate was mixed with water. The resulting aqueous mixture was extracted with ethyl acetate, and the extract was washed with water and with a saturated aqueous solution of sodium chloride, in that order, after which it was dried over anhydrous sodium sulfate. The solvent was removed by distillation under reduced pressure, and the resulting residue was purified by column chromatography through silica gel, using a 1:6 by volume mixture of ethyl acetate and hexane as the eluent, to give 16.9 g of the title compound having an Rf value=0.48 (on thin layer chromatography on silica gel; developing solvent: a 1:6 by volume mixture of ethyl acetate and hexane).

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