P-Quinones

The photocycloaddition of arylazirines with a variety of multiple bonds proceeds in high yield and provides a convenient route for the synthesis of five-membered heterocyclic rings. Some of the dipolarophiles include azodicarboxylates, acid chlorides, vinylphosphonium salts and p-quinones. 

Silylated cyanohydrins have also been prepared via silylation of cyanohydrins themselves and by the addition of hydrogen cyanide to silyl enol ethers. Silylated cyanohydrins have proved to be quite useful in a variety of synthetic transformations, including the regiospecific protection of p-quinones, as intermediates in an efficient synthesis of a-aminomethyl alcohols, and for the preparation of ketone cyanohydrins themselves.The silylated cyanohydrins of heteroaromatic aldehydes have found extensive use as... 

Vulcanisation may also be brought about by zinc and calcium peroxides, p-quinone dioxime, epoxide resins, phenolic resins and di-isocyanates. 

Other mild oxidising agents which abstract the terminal hydrogen atoms and thus facilitate disulphide formation may be used as vulcanising agents. They include benzoyl peroxide, p-nitrosobenzene and p-quinone dioxime. 

The addition of p-quinone to enamines normally produces furan derivatives, especially when the enamine possesses a 3 hydrogen (see Section III. A). 1,2 Cycloaddition is claimed to take place to give a cyclobutane derivative when p-quinone and an enamine with no jS hydrogens are allowed to react at low temperatures (51). However, little evidence is reported to verify this structural assignment, and the actual structure probably is a benzofuranol (52). Reaction of a dienamine (formed in situ) with p-quinone in the presence... 

Although not a heteroaromatic compound, the case of citrinin studied by Destro and Luz ([97JPC(A)5097] and references therein) is so significant that it deserves mention here. Citrinin exists in the crystal as a mixture of the p-quinone 5a and o-quinone 5b tautomers (Scheme 3). The equilibrium ii temperature dependent and by using CPMAS NMR (Section VI,F) and, more remarkably. X-ray crystallography, the authors were able to determine the AH and AS values (the rate is extremely fast on the NMR time scale, >10 s ). 

Synthesis of p-quinones, derivatives of fused systems including heterocyclic fragments through oxidation of phenol derivatives 98OPP603. 

Para-chinon, n. paraquinone, p-quinone. -con-sdure, /. paraconic acid, -cyan, n. paracy-anogen. -cymol, n. paracymene, p-cymene. Paradies, n. paradise, -apfel, m. tomato, -feige, /. banana, -holz, n. agalloch, aloes wood, -koraer, n.pl. grains of paradise, paradox, a. paradoxical. 

Aqueous solutions of aequorin also emit light upon the addition of various thiol-modification reagents, such as p-quinone, Br2, I2, N-bromosuccinimide, N-ethylmaleimide, iodoacetic acid, and p-hydroxymercuribenzoate (Shimomura et al., 1974b). The luminescence is weak and long-lasting ( 1 hour). The quantum yield varies with the conditions, but seldom exceeds 0.02 at 23-25°C. The luminescence is presumably due to destabilization of the functional moiety caused by the modification of thiol and other groups on the aequorin molecule. 

N,N-Bis(trimethylsilyl)carbodiimide 328, which is readily accessible in 81% yield on silylation of cyanamide with TCS 14/triethylamine [124] and which is apparently in equilibrium with N,N-bis(trimefhylsilyl)cyanamide 553, reacts readily with non-enolizable ketones such as 554 or 2,5-dimethyl-p-quinone in the presence of CsF or TiCL., probably via 553, to N-cyanoimines such as 555 or 556, in 47 and 89% yield, respectively, and HMDSO 7 [125, 126] whereas the enohzable ketone... 

Diao, L. Yang, C. Wan, P. Quinone methide intermediates from the photolysis of hydroxybenzyl alcohols in aqueous solution. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 5369-5370. 

Gauvin, R. M. Rozenberg, H. Shimon, L. J. W. Ben-David, Y. Milstein, D. Osmium-mediated C—H and C—C bond cleavage of a phenolic substrate p-quinone methide and methylene arenium pincer complexes. Chem. Eur. J. 2007, 13, 1382-1393. 

Chiang, Y. Kresge, A. J. Zhu, Y. Flash photolytic generation and study of p-quinone methide in aqueous solution. An estimate of rate and equilibrium constants for heterolysis of the carbon-bromine bond in p-hydroxybenzyl bromide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 6349-6356. 

Iverson, S. L. Hu, L. Q. Vukomanovic, V. Bolton, J. L. The influence of the para-alkyl substituent on the isomerization of o-quinones to p-quinone methides potential hioac-tivation mechanism for catechols. Chem. Res. Toxicol. 1995, 8, 537-544. 

Bolton, J. L. Shen, L. p-Quinone methides are the major decomposition products of catechol estrogen o-quinones. Carcinogenesis 1996, 17, 925-929. 

Marlon P. Quinones, Fabio Jimenez, Carlos A. Estrada, Heman G. Martiniez, and Seema S. Ahuja... 

Marlon P. Quinones South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Division, San Antonio, Veterans Administration Center for Research on AIDS and HTV-1 Infection, San Antonio, TX and Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA... 

Engler and coworkers [76] developed a new domino process which consists of a [5+3] cycloaddition of a p-quinone monoimide with a styrene derivative followed by a [3+2] or [3+3] cycloaddition. The reaction allows the formation of two additional rings and up to eight stereogenic centers, with high selectivity. The best results, with 58% yield of4-230, were obtained in the transformation of 4-227 and 4-228 in the presence of BF3 Et20 at -20 °C (Scheme 4.49). In addition, the diastereomer 4-231 was obtained in 16 % yield. It can be assumed that the cation 4-229 functions as an intermediate. The process also functions with quinones, though much less efficiently. 

The oxidative formation of p-benzoquinones from anilides such as 7-108 was used for the synthesis of the core scaffold of the natural products elisabethin A (7-106) and pseudopterosin A aglycone (7-107) (Scheme 7.30). Exposure of anilide 7-108 to DMP [53] led to the formation of the o-imidoquinone 7-109, which underwent an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction to give 7-110 in 28% yield after hydration. In a competitive pathway, the p-quinone 7-111 is also formed from 7-108, which on heating in toluene again underwent an intramolecular Diels-Alder reaction to give cycloadduct 7-112 in 25% overall yield. Hydrolysis of 7-112 furnished the carbocyclic skeleton 7-113 of elisabethin A (7-106). 

The synthesis of polysulfide elastomers involves the use of a small amount of trichloroalkane in addition to dichloroalkane and sodium sulfide in order to form a branched polymer. The prepolymer is treated with a mixture of sodium hydrosulfide and sodium sulfite followed by acidification to convert all end-groups to thiol groups. Further polymerization and crosslinking is achieved by oxidative coupling of the thiol end-groups by treatment with lead dioxide, p-quinone dioxime, or other oxidizing agent... 

Artemchenko et al. [25] used a spectrophotometric method with p-quinone chlor-imide in isopropanol in a pH 8 universal buffer for the determination of primaquine. 

The related l-methyl-2-t-butyldimethylsilyloxy allylidenecyclopropane (129) reacted with activated dienophiles at ambient temperature or even below (Table 13, entries 2-4) to give moderate to good yields of the corresponding [4 + 2] cycloadducts 133-135. Only dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (113) required heating to 110 ° to give good yields of the adduct 132 (Table 13, entry 1) [32]. Adduct 135 from p-quinone (entry 4) tends to oxidize by purification on silica gel in the air. 

Ethoxy)-allylidenecyclopropane (136a) readily underwent Diels-Alder reaction with activated dienophiles under mild conditions (Table 14) [33]. Only one regioisomer was formed with unsymmetrically substituted dienophiles such as methyl maleic anhydride (137), and quinones 138-141 (entries 2 and 3-6). AH the cycloadducts 143-147 derive from an endo approach between the two reagents. Two site-isomers were obtained in 96 4 ratio with 3-isopropyl-6-methyl-p-quinone (141) (entry 6) and the high site-selectivity observed in this... 

Nifantev, E.E., Kukhareva, T.S., and Davydochkina, O.V., Halo derivatives of p-quinone in reactions with amidophosphites, Zh. Obshch. Khim., 62,222,1992. 

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