
%0 Journal Article
%A Carlini, Rina 
%A Fang, Cheng-Lin 
%A Herrington, Deborah 
%A Higgs, Kerianne 
%A Rodrigo, Russell 
%A Taylor, Nicholas 
%T A Neutral Donor-Acceptor <font face = "symbol">p</font>-Stack: Solid-State Structures of 1 : 1 Pyromellitic Diimide-Dialkoxynaphthalene Cocrystals
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1997/06/30
%V 50
%N 4
%P 271-278
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/C96099
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/C96099 
%X Substituted ortho-benzoquinones, generated in situ by hypervalent iodine oxidation of catechols, are intercepted by unsymmetrical dienes to provide Diels-Alder adducts with complete regiospecificity. Catechols with carboxy substituents in the 3 or 4 positions react similarly and the initial adducts decarboxylate to produce 8-substituted or 5-substituted 1,2-dihydroxydihydronaphthalenes respectively,  in a one-pot three-step sequence. The reaction has been further adapted to produce naphtho&#91;1,8-bc&#93;furans in a one-pot process; its application towards the synthesis of the tricyclic system of the sesquiterpene nardonoxide is described 
