“…Sodium p-hydroxybenzenesulfonate (98%, Aldrich), formaldehyde (37% aqueous solution, Fisher), sulfuric acid (Mallinkrodt), hydroquinone (Sargent-Welch), 2-propanol (HPLC grade, Mallinkrodt), ethanol (HPLC grade, Aldrich), ethyl acetate (HPLC grade, Burdick & Jackson), hexane (HPLC grade, Aldrich), acetonitrile (Mallinkrodt), and potassium chloride (Mallinkrodt) were used as received. Reagent grade methanol (Sargent-Welch) was further purified following the procedure of Wolfhagen and Soltese (7). Quinone (Eastman) was purified by double-sublimation just prior to use.…”