ChemInform Abstract: A New Method to Prepare 3-Alkyl-2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinones: Synthesis of Lapachol and Phthiocol.

✍ Scribed by Sabrina Baptista Ferreira; David Rodrigues da Roche; Jose Walkimar M. Carneiro; Wilson Costa Santos; Vitor Francisco Ferreira

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 24 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.201144081

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Lawsone (I) is used as starting material for the optimized reductive alkylation process to yield the title compounds including phthiocol (IIa) and lapachol (IIIb).