creator Stagliano, Kenneth William creator Emadi, Ashkan This invention provides various biquinone and trimeric quinone derivatives. The invention also provides a method for synthesis of a multi-quinone compound including reacting a hydroxyquinone anion with a first quinone possessing a first directing group at a C-2 of the first quinone and a second directing group at a C-3 of the first quinone and obtaining a biquinone having one of the first and second directing groups at a C-3 of a first quinone monomer and a hydroxyl group at a C-3' of a second quinone monomer. The biquinone can be further reacted to obtain various biquinone derivatives or with a second hydroxyquinone anion to obtain trimeric quinone derivatives, including trimeric naphthoquinone derivatives. The biquinones and trimeric quinones of this invention demonstrate antiviral activity and can be used to treat viral infections, particularly HIV infections. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2012-01-12T20:22:53Z No. of bitstreams: 1 6828347.pdf: 101040 bytes, checksum: 9c0f719434067f5052d037711dd3d492 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-01-12T20:22:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6828347.pdf: 101040 bytes, checksum: 9c0f719434067f5052d037711dd3d492 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-12-07 Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-14 2004-12-07 6,828,347 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2450 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access