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    A method for the selective ortho-alkylation of catechol has been developed.

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    A number of new compounds have been obtained in this way, including the previously inaccessible sterically-hindred 3,6-di-tert-butylcatechol.

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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 7, pp. 1594–1596, July, 1972.

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Belostotskaya, I.S., Komissarova, N.L., Dzhuaryan, É.V. et al. The ortho-alkylation of catechol. Russ Chem Bull 21, 1535–1536 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00850511

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