[Chimie]

Hey

I'm in the middle of preparing methyl naphthoquinone starting from Toluene + succinic anhydride to follow "Haworth Reaction". The question is could I ignore the reduction step and still believe that ring closure will happened  while I have deactivation to electrophilic attack thanks to the electron withdrawal group.

Please help me, I think I lost my way.

[SirRoderick]

I don't think I understand why you think you can just skip the reduction.

[Chimie]

if I did so, what will happen?

[free_radical]

The second Friedel-Crafts will not occur in the ortho position if you skip the reduction because the keto group is a meta director.