“…With these considerations in mind, and in the continuation of our efforts to develop new pathways toward the chemical synthesis [30][31][32][33][34][35][36] and as part of our current study on the oxidative cleavages of cyclic vicinal diols to synthesize new potentially biologically active heterocycles, 31 we have herein focused on the development of a facile and effective method for the synthesis of new naphthoate derivatives (Scheme 1). In this study, we report the results of our efforts on the synthesis of various new alkyl 1-naphthoates containing 2,4-dihydroxyquinoline, 4-hydroxy-2pyranone, and 2-hydroxycyclohexenones, starting from acenaphthoquinone and various 1,3-diketones in the presence of different primary alcohols (ROH, R: aliphatic and benzylic groups) as solvent and reagent followed by metal-free H 5 IO 6mediated oxidative cleavage of the corresponding vicinal diols.…”