Chemistry Letters

Oxidation of azulene derivatives. Autoxidation of 4, 6, 8-trimethylazulene in a polar aprotic solvent.

Y Matsubara, S Takekuxma, K Yokoi, H Yamamoto…

Index: Matsubara, Yoshiharu; Takekuma, Shin-ichi; Yokoi, Katsumi; Yamamoto, Hiroshi; Nozoe, Tetsuo Chemistry Letters, 1984 , p. 631 - 634

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Abstract

Autoxidation of 4, 6, 8-trimethylazulene at 120° C in N, N-dimethylformamide yielded twelve separable products (including four known compounds), which were assigned to be azulenoquinone, inden-1-one, and azulenyl-1-indanone derivatives. A comparison of the present results with those of guaiazulene was made to obtain a mechanistic aspect of the oxidation reaction.