4,5-Dimethylbenzene-1,2-dimethanol

 white solid (total yield 13.6 g, 91%), mp 95–96 °C (lit. [7] mp95–98 °C).

IR: 3245 cm−1;

1H NMR (CDCl3, 400 MHz):
δ 7.12 (s, 2H),  AR-H
4.68 (s, 4H),  2XCH2
2.83 (s, 2H),  -OH
2.26 (s, 6H);  2XCH3

13C NMR (CDCl3, 100 MHz):
δ 136.80,
136.76,
131.31,
63.97,      -OCH2
19.32.           -CH3

Molbank 2014, 2014(4), M835; doi:10.3390/M835

http://www.mdpi.com/1422-8599/2014/4/M835

4,5-Dimethylbenzene-1,2-dimethanol

Krishna Kumar Gnanasekaran

, Richard A. Bunce *  and K. Darrell Berlin

Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University, 107 Physical Sciences, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA

krishna.gnanasekaran@okstate.edu (K.K.G.); kdb@okstate.edu (K.D.B.) ,  E-Mail: rab@okstate.edu; 

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