Trifluoroacetic acid → 4H-Pyran-4-one, 5-hydroxy-2-methyl-

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5-p-Methoxybenzyloxy-2-methyl-4-pyrone, 10 g, was dissolved in 10 ml of anisole and 15 ml of trifluoroacetic acid was dropwise added to the solution under ice cooling. After stirring at the same temperature for 3 hours, the mixture was concentrated under reduced pressure. The concentrate was separated and purified by flash column chromatography (eluting solution; chloroform: methanol=20:1) using Wako Gel C-300 (200 g) to give 2.4 g of the title compound.

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