2,6-Di-tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone was used as an antioxidant to study the elimination rate of micro pollutant from storm and waste water. It was also used as a metabolite of butylated hydroxytoluene. It is used as a treatment agent to improve germination and plant health.
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Applications
2,6-Di-tert-butyl-1,4-benzoquinone was used as an antioxidant to study the elimination rate of micro pollutant from storm and waste water. It was also used as a metabolite of butylated hydroxytoluene. It is used as a treatment agent to improve germination and plant health.
Solubility
Insoluble in water.
Notes
Stable under recommended storage conditions. Incompatible with oxidizing agents.
RUO – Research Use Only
Niklas Janzen; Stefan Banzhaf; Traugott Scheytt; Kai Bester; Niklas Janzen; Stefan Banzhaf; Traugott Scheytt; Kai Bester. Vertical flow soil filter for the elimination of micro pollutants from storm and waste water. Chemosphere. 2009, 77, (10),1358-1365
K.W.Singletary; J.M.Nelshoppen; S.Scardefield; M.Wallig. Inhibition by butylated hydroxytoluene and its oxidative metabolites of DMBA-induced mammary tumorigenesis and of mammary DMBA-DNA adduct formation in vivo in the female rat. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 1992, 30, (6),455-465
Benzylamines react at the 4-position with aromatization of the quinone ring. The resulting imines can be oxidized, in the presence of oxygen and base, to the corresponding benzamides, thus providing an amine to amide conversion, an otherwise difficult transformation: J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 970 (1979).