Convenient Access to Hydroquinone and Quinone Derivatives from Cyclobutenedione Units

Thanh V. Nguyen

doi:10.1071/CH10189

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Convenient Access to Hydroquinone and Quinone Derivatives from Cyclobutenedione Units

Thanh V. Nguyen ^A

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^A Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. Email: thanh@rsc.anu.edu.au

Thanh V. Nguyen graduated from University of New South Wales with B.Sc.(Hons). In 2006, he commenced study towards his Ph.D. at the Australian National University under the supervision of Associate Professor Michael S. Sherburn. He has been working on the design, synthesis, and guest binding studies of new synthetic hosts. He has recently submitted his doctoral thesis and is going to move to Germany to pursue research in organocatalysis.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 63(8) 1309-1310 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH10189
Submitted: 11 May 2010 Accepted: 25 June 2010 Published: 10 August 2010

Abstract

An important synthetic method providing access to a variety of heterocyclic and polycyclic quinones and hydroquinones is described. The key transformation involves the thermal ring expansion of cyclobutenedione derivatives to quinone/hydroquinone units. The synthetic utility and recent applications of this method in natural product synthesis are also discussed.

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Convenient Access to Hydroquinone and Quinone Derivatives from Cyclobutenedione Units

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