Hydroquinone → Monobenzone

HRID 853145Notes

Reaction equation

[C:1]1([CH:8]=[CH:7][C:5]([OH:6])=[CH:4][CH:3]=1)[OH:2].[CH2:9](Br)[C:10]1[CH:15]=[CH:14][CH:13]=[CH:12][CH:11]=1>>[CH2:9]([O:2][C:1]1[CH:8]=[CH:7][C:5]([OH:6])=[CH:4][CH:3]=1)[C:10]1[CH:15]=[CH:14][CH:13]=[CH:12][CH:11]=1

Participants

Reactant 2

HCID 785Hydroquinone

HCID 7498Benzyl Bromide

Product 1

HCID 7638Monobenzone

Procedure

In analogy to the procedure described in Example 1a), the alkylation of hydroquinone with benzylbromide yielded the 4-benzyloxy-phenol as a colourless solid.

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-602ad76cf3224e9a9eded61c08b94270
Source dataset: uspto-grants-2007_08
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US07253318B2

Reaction notes

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