Convenient Access to Hydroquinone and Quinone Derivatives from Cyclobutenedione Units

Thirty years ago, cyclobutenediones were only studied as theoretically interesting molecules without much thought towards their potential use in building complex structures.[1–3] Late in the 1980s, these compounds started to find their way into synthetic organic chemistry via their conversion to hig...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nguyen, Thanh Vinh
Format: Journal Article
Published: CSIRO Publishing 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/37577