Abstract1‐Vinyl‐3,4,6‐trimethyl‐2‐methoxy‐5‐hydroxy‐benzene (I) was prepared in good yield by the Wittig reaction from the corresponding chloromethyl compound. It could be polymerized cationically to low molecular weight material. The polymer could be oxidized to poly(1‐vinyl‐3,4,6‐trimethyl‐2,5‐benzoquinone) (III) and could be reduced to the corresponding hydroquinone. Compound (I) was acetylated at the phenolic hydroxyl group and polymerized. The acetyl group was quantitatively reduced with lithium aluminum hydride, and the resulting polymer could be oxidized quantitatively to (III). Its molecular weight was a little higher than that prepared directly from (I).