Reactions of toluquinone – cyclopentadiene Diels –Alder epoxide adducts with nucleophiles under heterogeneous conditions

Abstract

Toluquinone–cyclopentadiene Diels–Alder epoxide adducts react with sulfur and oxygen nucleophiles under heterogeneous conditions, leading to products resulting from the epoxide ring opening and from skeletal rearrangement, respectively. Pyrolysis of the sulfanyl adducts gave the new 3-sulfanyltoluquinones (1).