Jianping Huang, Hong-Ze Liang
Jun 1, 2007
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Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications
Abstract
Dimethyl 2,3-dihydroxyterephthalate is an important intermediate widely used in the synthesis of 1H,4H-benzo[2,1b:3,4-b0]bisthiete and 2H,3H-benzo[1,2-b:4,3-b0]bisthiete, which are very versatile reagents for the generation of polycyclic sulfur-containing compounds (Meier & Rumpf, 1998; Meier & Mayer, 1994) and macrobicyclic Fe sequestering agents (Garrett et al.,1991). The title compound, (I), of which we report the crystal structure here, can also be used directly to synthesize enterobactin analogues (Weitl et al., 1981).