2-Methylnaphthalene is a simple polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). It is generally isolated from coal tar, of which it is a minor component.
2-Methylnaphthalene is a simple polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). It is generally isolated from coal tar, of which it is a minor component.
==Uses== The quinone derivative, Menadione, can be formed by the oxidation of 2-methylnaphthalene and finds use as a synthetic form of vitamin K.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).