Takeya Tetsuya, Kondo Hiromu, Otsuka Tsuyoshi, Tomita Kazuho, Okamoto Iwao, Tamura Osamu
Showa Pharmaceutical University, 3-3165 Higashi-tamagawagakuen, Machida, Tokyo 194-8543, Japan.
Org Lett. 2007 Jul 19;9(15):2807-10. doi: 10.1021/ol070951i. Epub 2007 Jun 20.
A novel oxidative cyclization of quinone-arenols 5 leading to products 6 with a dibenzofuran-1,4-dione structure, which forms the core of several natural products, has been developed and applied to the synthesis of violet-quinone (4).