Ra. Deoliveira et al., SYNTHESIS OF -DIMETHOXY-3-(3-METHYL-2-BUTENYL)-1,4-BENZOQUINONE USINGORGANOMETALLIC REAGENTS, Synthetic communications, 27(10), 1997, pp. 1743-1749
2,6-Dimethoxy-1,4-benzoquinone was submitted to prenylation in the pre
sence of PbBr2/Al/C5H9Br and Zn/C5H9Br respectively. The first conditi
on affords 2,2'-dimethyl-5,7-dimethoxybenzopyran-6-ol while the second
gaves mono and diprenylated derivatives.