Intramolecular Oxidative Coupling of Aromatic Compounds. III. Monophenolic Substrates

Abstract

The synthesis of (2RS,3SR)-4-(4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-2,3-dimethyl-1-(3,4,5-trimethoxypheny1)butan-1-one (9) is described. Monophenolic oxidative coupling of (9) did not give any useful result. Oxidation of the derived acetoxy compound (18) by chemical and electrochemical methods gave aryltetralin derivatives through aryl-benzyl coupling.