After reading the excellent post by antoncho regarding sodiumethoxide production swim was getting interested.
If one accidently found alot of 3-methyl-1,4-dimethoxy lying around and wanted to brominate iodinate it. Would it be as simple as adding elemental bromine to a soln. of 3-methyl-1,4-dimethoxy? Swim was of course looking for the 4-methyl-2,5-dimethoxy-bromobenzene as a product, so he could fool around with some acetone enolate and make some 4-methyl-2,5-dimethoxy-P2P... Or are the ring substitutens arranged so that the bromine would attack elsewhere?
Thanks
Regards
Peter