2,4-Dimethoxybenzaldehyde is used as a reagent to specifically quantify phlorotannins. It is also used as a component of hair dyes.
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Applications
2,4-Dimethoxybenzaldehyde is used as a reagent to specifically quantify phlorotannins. It is also used as a component of hair dyes.
Solubility
Insoluble in water. Soluble in chlorofrom.
Notes
Air sensitive. Incompatible with oxidizing agents.
RUO – Research Use Only
Aliakbar Dehno Khalaji; Karla Fejfarova; Michal Dusek. Synthesis and characterization of two Diimine Schiff Bases derived from 2,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde: The crystal structure of N,N’-Bis(2,4-dimethoxybenzylidene)-1,2-diaminoethane. Acta Chim. Slov. 2010, 57, 257-261
Kou-Chang Liu; Becky R.Shelton; Robert K.Howe. A particularly convenient preparation of benzohydroximinoyl chlorides (nitrile oxide precursors). J. Org. Chem. 1980, 45, (19)3916-3918
Has been used to protect diols as their cyclic acetals, by azeotroping in the presence of TsOH: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 84, 430 (1962). The products are readily hydrolyzed by acid but are stable to hydrogenolysis conditions (Raney Ni) used to cleave O-benzyl groups: Tetrahedron, 42, 3021 (1986).