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. 2016 Sep 20;17(9):1576. doi: 10.3390/ijms17091576

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Nucleophilic addition of internal carboxyl group on quinone. Both carboxymethyl-o-quinone and carboxyethyl-o-quinone exhibit rapid intramolecular cyclization due to the presence of suitably substituted internal carboxyl group yielding cyclic products.