Dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone 2.3-

Pyrido[l,2-6]pyridazinium inner salt 61 was prepared from 1,2-dihydropyrido[l,2-6]pyridazinium inner salt 54 by treatment with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone in CH2CI2 at room temperature in 95% yield (99JOC9001). 

The next major obstacle is the successful deprotection of the fully protected palytoxin carboxylic acid. With 42 protected functional groups and eight different protecting devices, this task is by no means trivial. After much experimentation, the following sequence and conditions proved successful in liberating palytoxin carboxylic acid 32 from its progenitor 31 (see Scheme 10) (a) treatment with excess 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) in ie/t-butanol/methylene chloride/phosphate buffer pH 7.0 (1 8 1) under sonication conditions, followed by peracetylation (for convenience of isolation) (b) exposure to perchloric acid in aqueous tetrahydrofuran for eight days (c) reaction with dilute lithium hydroxide in H20-MeOH-THF (1 2 8) (d) treatment with tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride (TBAF) in tetrahydrofuran first, and then in THF-DMF and (e) exposure to dilute acetic acid in water (1 350) at 22 °C. The overall yield for the deprotection sequence (31 —>32) is ca. 35 %. 

Dehydrogenation is a rarely used method for the production of fully unsaturated azepines, and there are no examples of its use for the formation of simple monocyclic systems, although 3-hydroxy- and 3-methoxy-2//-azepin-2-ones can be obtained by dehydrogenation of the corresponding l,5-dihydro-2//-azepin-2-ones with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) in benzene in a sealed tube at 100 48-51-52-67... 

The dihydrodiazepine 3 obtained from diaminomaleonitrile and A. A -dimethylacrylamide is dehydrogenated to the diazepine 4 by 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ).186... 

Benzyloxybenzylamine (BOBA) 48 is a new class of an amine support and was prepared from Merrifield resin in two steps [56]. BOBA resin was treated with an aldehyde in the presence of an acid to give an imine that subsequently reacted with Yb(OTf)3-catalyzed silyl enolates (Scheme 18). Cleavage with trimethylsilyl triflate (TMSOTf) or 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) gave either phenols or amines, respectively. 

EPR techniques were used to show (Polyakov et al. 2001a) that one-electron transfer reactions occur between carotenoids and the quinones, 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ), and tetrachlorobenzoquinone (CA). A charge-transfer complex (CTC) is formed with a -values of 2.0066 and exists in equilibrium with an ion-radical pair (Car Q ). Increasing the temperature from 77 K gave rise to a new five-line signal with g=2.0052 and hyperfine couplings of 0.6 G due to the DDQ radical anions. At room temperature a stable radical with y=2.0049 was detected, its... 

Acyl-substituted quinolizinium ylide 63 was obtained by treatment of its 1,2-dihydro analogue with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ). Its 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with an acetylenic ester in excess was regioselective and was accelerated in polar solvents yielding the intermediate adduct 64 and finally the corresponding cyclazine 65, as shown in Scheme 2 <2001JOC1638>. 

The fullerene C o was used as the Unking agent for the synthesis of (PCHD-fc-PS)6 and (PS-fc-PCHD)6 star-block copolymers [154], The polymers were then aromatized with 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone, DDQ, in 1,2-dichlorobenzene to yield the corresponding copolymers containing poly(l,4-phenylene) blocks. In order to achieve high 1,4-isomer contents and to avoid termination reactions, the polymerization of CHD was conducted in toluene at 10 °C without the presence of any additive to yield products with low molecular weights. Coupling of the PCHD-fo-PSLi to C60... 

Khashaba et al. [34] suggested the use of sample spectrophotometric and spectrofluorimetric methods for the determination of miconazole and other antifungal drugs in different pharmaceutical formulations. The spectrophotometric method depend on the interaction between imidazole antifungal drugs as -electron donor with the pi-acceptor 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone, in methanol or with p-chloranilic acid in acetonitrile. The produced chromogens obey Beer s law at Amax 460 and 520 nm in the concentration range 22.5-200 and 7.9-280 pg/mL for 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone and p-chloranilic acid, respectively. Spectrofluorimetric method is based on the measurement of the native fluorescence of ketoconazole at 375 nm with excitation at 288 nm and/or fluorescence intensity versus concentration is linear for ketoconazole at 49.7-800 ng/mL. The methods... 

In Grigg s approach to hippadine (37), he established the connection between the two phenyl rings via the Stille-Kelly reaction [45]. When diiodide 35 was submitted to the Pd(0)/ditin catalyst system, the intramolecular cyclization was realized to establish the C—C bond in lactam 36. Oxidation of the indoline moiety in 36 using 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ) then delivered hippadine (37). Analogously, the intramolecular Stille coupling of dibromide 38 led directly to hippadine (37) [46]. 

With chlorinated quinones. New heterocycles containing 1,2-dihydro-imidazo [l,2- ]imidazol-3-one 405 or 1/7-imi-dazo[l,2- ]pyrazole moieties were obtained via charge-transfer interaction of creatinine or 3-aminopyrazole with some 7i-deficient compounds such as 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone, 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-l,4-benzoquinone, 2,3-dichloro- or 2,3-dicyano-1,4-naphthoquinone, and 3,4,5,6-tetrachloro-l,2-benzoquinone (Equation 183) C1996BSB159, 2001HC0541, 2000PS1>. 

Dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone is readily regenerated in good yield from the hydroquinone by oxidation with nitric acid.4... 

The benzylic hydrogen atom of alkylarenes is replaced by the azido group on treatment with trimethylsilyl azide in the presence of 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone subsequent hydrogenation yields amines (e.g. equation 5)31. 

A solution of 100 mg. (0.41 mmole) of 4,4 -dimethoxybibenzyl (Note 1) in 1.5 ml. of anhydrous dioxane (Note 2) was placed in a 10-ml. round-bottomed flask. To this was added 103 mg. (0.45 mmole) of 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-l,4-benzoquinone (DDQ Note 3) dissolved in 1.5 ml. of anhydrous dioxane. The flask was fitted with a reflux condenser and heated in an oil bath at 105° for 18 hours. The solution, which was initially deep green, became pale yellow as the hydroquinone crystallized out. The mixture was cooled, and the solid was filtered off. It was washed with 1 ml. of warm benzene followed by 6 ml. of warm chloro-... 

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