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Properties of chlorinated dihydroxybenzenes - components of pulp bleaching effluents
Smith, Terrence J.,Wearne, Ross H.,Wallis, Adrian F. A.
, p. 1555 - 1560 (2007/10/03)
Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry data are given for the chlorodihydroxybenzenes which are components of wood pulp bleaching effluents and biologically-treated effluents, and are proposed intermediates in the chlorination of humic acids. The chlorohydroxybenzenes include the nine chlorocatechols, the six chlorohydroquinones and the seven known chlororesorcinols. The 22 chlorinated compounds were generally well separated on a phenyl methyl silicone column with the exception of three dichloro compounds. The chloro compounds with the same level of chlorine substitution were not able to be distinguished on the basis of their electron impact mass spectra.
Benzoquinones and Related Compounds. Part 4. Thermolysis of the Diels-Alder Adduct of 2-Acetyl-5,6-dichloro-1,4-benzoquinone and Cyclopentadiene: Evidence for a Partial Retro-diene Reaction
Beddoes, Roy L.,Bruce, J. Malcolm,Finch, Harry,Heelam, Leslie M. J.,Hunt, Ian D.,Mills, Owen S.
, p. 2670 - 2676 (2007/10/02)
Addition of chlorine to (2-methyl-1,3-dioxolan-2-yl)-1,4-benzoquinone occurs at the unsubstituted double bond.Subsequent enolisation and cleavage of the acetal affords 2-acetyl-5,6-dichlorohydroquinone in 50percent overall yield.Oxidation of this gives the corresponding 1,4-benzoquinone which with cyclopentadiene yields, predominantly, the 1 : 1 Diels-Alder adduct (6) by endo-addition to the 2,3-double bond.Thermolysis of this adduct in benzene results in disproportionation to cyclopentadiene and the spiro-acetal (13); thermolysis in acetic acid also yields (13), but the major product is the dihydrobenzofuran (14), an isomer of the Diels-Alder adduct.Mechanisms for the formation of these products are discussed.
