1988 年 46 巻 3 号 p. 192-204
Birch reduction of aromatic ethers is well-known to afford alicyclic compounds such as cyclohexenones and cyclohexadienes. Oxidation of phenols also affords alicyclic ones such as cyclohexadienones in addition to oxidative coupling products. Mainly, we describe herein phenolic oxidation giving alicyclic compounds, from which a number of bioactive natural products have been synthesized