Also known as ortho-naphthoquinone, 1,2-Naphthalenedione
1,2-Naphthoquinone or '''ortho-naphthoquinone''' is a polycyclic aromatic organic compound with formula . It is classified as a 1,2-diketone as well as an ortho-quinone. More specifically, it is one of several naphthoquinones.
1,2-Naphthoquinone or '''ortho-naphthoquinone''' is a polycyclic aromatic organic compound with formula . It is classified as a 1,2-diketone as well as an ortho-quinone. More specifically, it is one of several naphthoquinones.
==Preparation and occurrence== 1,2-Naphthoquinone is produced commercially by air-oxidation of 1-naphthol in the presence of copper catalyst. A laboratory route involved oxidation of 1-amino-2-hydroxynaphthalene with ferric chloride.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).