4-Hydroxycoumarin

Chemical Properties

Yellow powder or chunks or Slightly yellow needle-like crystals.  freely soluble in ethanol, ether and hot water. brown in color with ferric chloride.

Uses

4-Hydroxycoumarin is a plant derived antioxidant, protecting against lipid peroxidation, as well as a potential inhibitor of HIV-1 Integrase. 4-Hydroxycoumarins are a very important class of biologically active drugs which are widely used as anticoagulants-Warfarin and Acenocoumarol.

Uses

4-Hydroxycoumarin is involved in annulation reactions, due to the relatively high acidity of the C-H bond at the 3-position: a three-component reaction with isocyanides and dialkyl acetylene dicarboxylates affords annulated 4H-pyrans.

Uses

4-Hydroxycoumarin may be regarded as a phenylenetetronic acid , and like tetronic acid forms condensation products with aldehydes.

Synthesis of biscoumarin derivatives by the reaction of aldehydes and 4-hydroxycoumarin using ruthenium(III) chloride hydrate as a versatile homogeneous catalyst.

Definition

ChEBI: 4-hydroxycoumarin is a hydroxycoumarin that is coumarin in which the hydrogen at position 4 is replaced by a hydroxy group. It is a conjugate acid of a 4-hydroxycoumarin(1-).

Synthesis Reference(s)

The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 25, p. 677, 1960 DOI: 10.1021/jo01074a630

Purification Methods

Crystallise 4-hydroxycoumarin from water and dry it in a vacuum desiccator over pKEst Sicapent. [Beilstein 18/1 V 378.]

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