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AB9TEUCT.
74-
165The
r a a e t i a n of a h l o r s n l l with v a r i o u s
.Ubbtitutetl phenols under bacria aandition. ha# been st-tidied. It ham been found that
t h eyield@ of
h s n s o b i s b e n a o f ~ q u i n ~ n o i d
(1)d e r i v a t i v e s
a mg r e a t e r when,rfter i n i t i a l ntreleophiXia rttaak en t h e Iceteenoid aymtem
byt h e
oxygen atomo f
t h ephenoxida ion, t h o earban
aCamartho
t o thevinyl- - a w l e t h e r linkage is
a c t i v n t s d t o w r u d 8farther nucloophilic a t t a c k
by thepramanam of
asnitably orientated s l e u t r o n relsaaing mubstituabnt. The other predueta
of ther e a e t i o n mixture hevc been i e a l n t e d
andcharaatarisod,
andt h e a n e a t r a l
d a t mdisaumssd f o r the derivatives of 2 , 3 4 i e t h a m i -
1 bensofttran-1,4-qninane whiah were ahtained I n
t h i sI walC
The maas a p e a t r r of benarabisbensofuranquinones
andthe oarreaponding quinol a e s t a t e a haw. heen examincsd. Faail. l e e 8 ef methyl radiealm frera
u a m n t i a methoxy
p u p .and ketone from
thea a e t a t a d*rivati+oa
waaabservod. Deo~rbanylafion
nndfragmentmtion irmolving the h e t e r o a y e l i c ring syetem resulted i n peake af only minor i n t s n s i e . The ready l o s e of enhetPtnsnBn as dsseribad
abavai s explained
byt h e remalting famuation of remanutee mtabilirsd
quheneidianm.
Sane eheaianl aanmtituanta of' P*nioohor%
gigmnfoa have
beenimelated and ahareaterinecl.
2 ' , 3 ' ,6*-Trimatha~-p-$erphenyl (25)
warn ehtainedwhiah
repreesnhs the first methoxylrted b-terphenyl i s o 3 n t o d
from s ftm@as. Alao obtained
warna mixture u o m r i s i n g
twoeompeunda,
C,gHhg andC30R50.
O n m a r 8speetral
grotmdmthese are
propa8ad to bet h e pentaayalia
triterpenao, laps-15,19(22)-diene (33) and
lup-74 - [63
-19(22)-ene (34) rsmpeetively,
oxide (44) ha0 been a i a r e b l a l o ~ a a l l y hydrexylntad
byCaloneefrla docera te form l/,
754-d~hydroxy-l4.15-epoxy-2- -ketomanoyl oxide (45). The pouitions of the
hydroxyrpraupo w e r a detsrained fram tha peeks
arising from fragmentatianr in ring.
A andR in the
~ bonding obmowed i n the i.r. mpbotmam mppor$ed the equatorial canfarmatian o f the hydro- -up at C 1 whilat t h e faail. la69 a f n t s r upon elmatron impact
and
the premsnae a f
ru i r n s l aorrssponding
t aan equatorirl eklrb%nol proton i n the n.m.r, infers that at C 7 1 . a x i a l .
Finally, if ham been propomad that tho atrueturea
o fthe blua pigmentme aartiainr
Aand B, 1aelateQ from Cartietram .acraclnalo\rrr
byDean are 2,6,9-trlhydrraxy- -3,8,12-trimathaxybensa~1,2-bc4,5-~*~bhimbsn~0furur
and2,3.8,9-tt~tramethoxyben~o[l, 2-bs4.5-b*] bimbenso-
I
f%1ran-6,12-dians r e s p e a t i w l y .
The n,m,r. spectmrft tbfe o r t i e i n
A B H a o e t s t a andaomprrrirran of the mare
epeatraof
thee*aompounds
nndthose anthentia
aamplem
prepareds ~ t h e t l a a l l y
irupporftheme ~ ~ t m c t t r e n .
E r r a t w
p105 para l r
Shouldread (R =
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