A facile one-pot synthesis of polysubstituted naphthalenes

✍ Scribed by Alexander S Kiselyov

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 69 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4039
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)00373-2

✦ Synopsis

Synthesis of the title compounds from (2-trifluoromethyl)phenylacetonitrile is described. The mechanism of the reaction is believed to involve the formation of the quinone methide intermediate.