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Nucleophilic reactivity of dehydrodiferulic acid bislactone
Boshoff, Philip R.,Perold, Guido W.
, p. 735 - 745 (2007/10/02)
Despite reports to the contrary, dehydrodiferulic acid bislactone can readily undergo nucleophilic attack.Silylation affords the disilyl ether-disilyl ester of the corresponding bismethylenesuccinic acid.Slow dissolution of the bislactone in sodium hydrogen carbonate solution affords this parent diacid, characterised as its mono- and dimethyl esters, and by its methylation to bisveratrylidenesuccinic acid, whose anhydride on aerial oxidation yields 6,7-dimethoxy-1-(3',4'-dimethoxyphenyl)naphthalene-2,3-dicarboxylic anhydride.
