Hydrogen Peroxide → 2,6-Dimethylhydroquinone

HRID 1678941Notes

Reaction equation

HRID 1678941 reaction equation
[OH:1]O.[CH3:3][C:4]1[CH:10]=[C:9]([CH3:11])[CH:8]=[C:6]([OH:7])[C:5]=1O>>[CH3:3][C:4]1[CH:5]=[C:6]([OH:7])[CH:8]=[C:9]([CH3:11])[C:10]=1[OH:1]

Participants

3

Reactant 2

HCID 784Hydrogen PeroxideHCID 177373,5-Dimethylbenzene-1,2-diol

Product 1

HCID 695602,6-Dimethylhydroquinone

Procedure

By following in the same manner as in Example 53, except that 60 percent hydrogen peroxide was increased from 2.88 g. (50.8 m. moles) to 4.50 g. (79.4 m. moles), 4.69 g. (34.0 m. moles) of 3,5-dimethylcatechol and 2.75 g. (19.9 m. moles) of 2,6-dimethylhydroquinone were obtained. The yield of dihydric alkylphenols was 67.9 percent.

Workup

  1. temperaturewas increased from 2.88 g

Sources & evidence

ORD record
ord-88f949aa806248868002eb38427d9c5c
Source dataset
uspto-grants-1978_03
Patent number
US04078006

Reaction notes

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