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What to do with naphtalene (--> naphtol)

pbmineral - 9-8-2007 at 15:03

Hi everyone

I have big amounts of quite pure naphtalene and would like to get something more reactive. I thought that naphthol (a or b) would be a more interesting precursor.

I just wondered what to do to get naphtol from naphtalene
I assumed that to sulfonate with H2SO4 then to melt with natrium soda would be an solution but don't know how to proceed.
If anyone knows ?

If there are interesting reactions please let me know!
But I would prefer to prepare mono substituate naphtalene.

Thanks for your ideas

Peter

chemoleo - 9-8-2007 at 15:35

Please search in the future.
This thread,
https://sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=4752&...
is one to start off with.