Acetic Anhydride → HCID 53788761, compound

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Reaction Steps

2-(3,7,11,15-Tetramethyl-2-hexadecenyl)-1,3,5-benzenetriol (1.00 g;2.47 mmole) was dissolved in 10 ml of pyridine and 833 mg (8.16 mmole) of acetic anhydride was added thereto with ice-cooling, followed by bringing it back to room temperature, stirring for 4 hours, removing the solvent by distillation and subjecting the resulting residue to silica gel column chromatography to thereby recover 0.77 g of the title compound from the fractions eluted with hexane-ethyl acetate (5:1). Yield=59%.

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