
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Crow, WD 
T1  - Alkaloids of the Australian Rutaceae: <I>Melicope fareana</I>. III. Oxidative Demethylation of Melicopicine
JF  - Australian Journal of Chemistry
JO  - Aust. J. Chem.
Y1  - 1949
VL  - 2
IS  - 2
SP  - 264
EP  - 271
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9490264 
N2  - Melicopicine and normelicopicine undergo oxidative demethylation with nitric acid giving rise to isomeric dimethoxyquinones. These are further demethylated by alkali to the same hydroxymethoxyquinone which is converted by hydrobromic acid to a dihydroxyquinone. All the quinones can be reductively methylated back to melicopicine. 
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