Cyclohexanone → HCID 70608087, compound

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Attempts to form acetals from polyhydric phenols with two or more pairs of ortho-positioned hydroxy groups have been less successful. Soloway in U.S. Pat. No. 2,927,096 describes the preparation of resins from aldehydes and polyhydric phenols, such as 1,2,4,5-tetrahydroxybenzene and pentahydroxy benzene. Dallacker et al in Annalen, Band 719 (1968), pp. 112-118 describe the preparation benzo [1.2-d:4.5-d']bis[1.3] dioxoles of the formula (III) wherein R is hydrogen, methoxy or allyl, by heating the corresponding mono-dioxole (IV) with chlorobromomethane in dimethyl formamide in the presence of potassium carbonate ##STR1## Kaye describes in the 13th Annual Report on Research, Petroleum Research Fund (1968) how reaction of catechol with cyclohexanone in the presence of toluene sulphonic acid in benzene gives only a 49% yield of the acetal, with some alkylation of the aromatic ring. Under the same conditions, no reaction took place between cyclohexanone and 1,2,4,5-tetrahydroxy-3,6-dimethylbenzene. He showed, however, in Abstracts of Research Supported by the Petroleum Research Fund (1968) p. 21 that 1,2,4,5-tetrahydroxy-3,5-dimethylbenzene formed an acetal (V) when heated with dichlorodiphenyl methane. ##STR2##

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