Nature Communications (May 2019)

Synthesis of an aromatic N-heterocycle derived from biomass and its use as a polymer feedstock

  • Yu Qi,
  • Jinyan Wang,
  • Yan Kou,
  • Hongchang Pang,
  • Shouhai Zhang,
  • Nan Li,
  • Cheng Liu,
  • Zhihuan Weng,
  • Xigao Jian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10178-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Aromatic N-heterocyclic compounds are important chemicals, but produced from petroleum. Here the authors show a pyridazine-based compound 6-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)pyridazin-3(2H)-one, used as polymer feedstocks, can be synthesized by a Friedel-Crafts reaction from biomass starting materials.