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Synthetic Communications
An International Journal for Rapid Communication of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Volume 9, 1979 - Issue 10
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An Efficient Steric Controlled Photo-Fries Rearrangement in the Naphthalene Series

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Pages 877-881 | Received 18 Jun 1979, Published online: 06 Dec 2006
 

Abstract

For the work on the synthesis of 2-acyl-5-methoxynaphthoquinones as tricyclic analogues of daunomycinone1, we wanted to develop an efficient regioselective synthesis of 5-methoxy-2-acyl-1-naphthols without using Lewis acids. This requirement precluded the use of the thermal Fries but not the photo-Fries rearrangement. Although the mechanistic aspects of the photo reaction have received much study2, the reaction has been little used preparatively3 because it usually gives poor yields of hydroxy ketones even when only one product is possible.

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