title: First transamination reactions for the one-pot synthesis of substituted zwitterionic quinones.
abstract: A new and very efficient one-pot synthesis, in water, of 6 pi + 6 pi electron zwitterionic benzoquinonemonoimines involves the first examples of transamination reactions in quinonoid chemistry and allows the introduction of functionalities to, and the fine-tuning of the properties of, a large family of molecules with interesting potential, both in supramolecular chemistry and as multidentate ligands in coordination chemistry.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, UMR CNRS 7513, Université Louis Pasteur, 4 rue Blaise Pascal, F-67070 Strasbourg Cédex, France.
authors.forename: Qing-Zheng
authors.initials: QZ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Siri
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Braunstein