Recent method of synthesizing 3,5-xylenol is sulpho alkaline fusion of dimethylbenzene,it is a very complicated procedure with serious pollution and low-pure products.
The synthetic medium of optical N acylalanines was N (2,6 xylyl) alanine.It was reacted with 1 menthol and prepared into its menthol esters which were purified by TLC, resolved and determined by HPLC.