ChemInform Abstract: Novel Dehydration Reaction of Neoanisatin and Transformation of Neoanisatin into Anisatin.

✍ Scribed by J. YOSHIZAWA; K. OBITSU; S. MAKI; H. NIWA; T. HIRANO; M. OHASHI

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Weight: 30 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-7597
• DOI: 10.1002/chin.199813239

✦ Synopsis

Novel Dehydration Reaction of Neoanisatin and Transformation of Neoanisatin into Anisatin.

-Neoanisatin (I) reacts with methyl oxalyl chloride (II) to form a novel and unexpected dehydration product (III) which can be converted to anisatin (IV). Interestingly, treatment of the latter with (II) yields the expected trioxalate (V). -(YOSHIZAWA,