title: Duroquinone
text: # Duroquinone
  
  Duroquinone is an organic oxidant $(C_6(CH_3)_4O_2).$ It is related to 1,4-benzoquinone by replacement of four H centres with methyl (Me) groups. The $C_{10}O_2$ core of this molecule is planar with two pairs of C=O and C=C bonds.
  
  The compound is produced via nitration of durene (1,2,4,5-tetramethylbenzene) followed reduction to the diamine and then oxidation.
  
  A derived organoiron compound $(η^2,η^2-C_6(CH_3)_4O_2)Fe(CO)_3$ is obtained by the carbonylation of 2-butyne in the presence of iron pentacarbonyl.
  
  The molecule has been mentioned in the popular press as a component of a "nano brain".
  
  Duroquinone was observed in a degradation products generated from pyrolysis of α-Tocopheryl acetate.
  
  