Flavylium nitration

Flavylium salts are oxidized to flavones on treatment with thallium(III) nitrate in methanol. The reaction is considered to involve initial attack at C-2 by methanol. The resulting chromene (484) undergoes reaction with the thallium salt at C-3 and nucleophilic attack at C-4 by methanol to give an unstable adduct (485), which decomposes to the flavone... 

Favorskil rearrangement of 2-chloro-cyclohexanone, 39, 37 Ferric chloride, 36, 31 37, 77 Ferric nitrate hydrate, 39, 73 Ferrocene, 36, 31, 34 Ferrous chloride solution in tetrahy-drofuran, 36, 31, 34 Fischer indole synthesis, of 1,2-benzo-3,4-dihydrocarbazole, 30, 91 of 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocarbazole, 30, 90 Flavone, 32, 72 Flavylium chloride, 32, 75 Flow meter, 34, 7 Fluorene, 34, 32 39, 44 Fluorene, 9-methyl-, 39, 43 9-Fluorenecarboxylic acid, 33, 37 o-Fluorobromobenzene, 39, 75... 

Oxidative general breakdown of flavylium salts was utilised in early structural work on the natural compounds. Baeyer-Villiger oxidation is such a process, whereby the two halves of the molecule can be separately examined (after ester hydrolysis of the product). Flavylium salts can be oxidised to flavones using thallium(III) nitrate, and benzopyrylium itself can be converted into coumarin with manganese dioxide. ... 

No simple examples are known of electrophilic or radical substitution of either heterocyclic or homocyclic rings of benzopyrylium salts flavylium and l-phenyl-2-benzopyrylium salts nitrate in the substituent benzene ring. Having said this, the cyclisation of coumarin-4-propanoic acid may represent Friedel-Crafts type intramolecular attack on the carbonyl-O-protonated form i.e. on a 2-hydroxy-1-... 

M. Meyer-Dayan, B. Bodo, C. Deschamps-Vallet, and D. Molko. The oxythallation of flavylium salts by thallic nitrate, a new synthesis of flavones. Tetrahedron Letters, 1978,3359. 

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