Q. Tan, Yunying Wang, Daliang Li
Dec 30, 2003
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Abstract
Camphorquinone (1), an important fine chemical and medicinal product derived from camphor, was efficiently synthesized from easily available camphoric acid (2). The key steps include acyloin condensation using Me 3 SiCl asa scavenger of alkoxides and oxidation of the bis(trimethylsilyl) derivative 4 by bromine in CCl 4 . The new method offers an efficient alternative synthesis of camphorquinone (1).