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55
Categorie Soggetti
Organic Chemistry/Polymer Science
Journal title
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION B-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY INCLUDING MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
In contact with alumina, the title aldehyde 1 (R = H, Me, Cl) gives the chr
omones 5 and 9-12 whereas the acid 2 affords the chromones 7, 10 and acetop
henone 23. Alumina converts the aldehyde 3 to the xanthone 14, and the corr
esponding acid 4 to the chromone 8 and diketone 24.