Sociedade Brasileira de Química, SBQ, Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, 8(20), p. 1478-1482, 2009
DOI: 10.1590/s0103-50532009000800014
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Methylene and aryl o-quinone methides (o-QMs) generated by Knoevenagel condensation of 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone with formaldehyde and arylaldehydes, undergo facile hetero Diels-Alder reaction with some substituted styrenes (as dienophiles) in aqueous ethanol media providing derivatives of α- and β-lapachone.