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Marschalk reaction

The Marschalk reaction in chemistry is the sodium dithionite promoted reaction of a phenolic anthraquinone with an aldehyde to yield a substituted phenolic anthraquinone after the addition of acid.

The mechanism can be found in the book Named Reactions in Organic Chemistry, and its more intuitive version is provided below:

One of the first applications of this reaction was reported in 1985.

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