phenol is considered as a pollutant, hydroquinone, a product of the phenol partial oxidation, is an important chemical material and organic synthesis intermediate widely used in many fields such as in medicines, cosmetics, pesticides flavoring agents, among others .
Hydroquinone was first obtained in 1820 by Pelletier and Caventou by dry distillation of quinic acid and until now it is widely used in the fields of medical, food, dye and photography chemicals . Hansen etal. proposed a new route to aromatic chemicals involving intermediacy of polyhydroxyaromatics derived from glucose. In their study, the centerpiece of the strategy was the discovery that catalytic hydrogenation of polyhydroxybenzenes followed by acid-catalyzed dehydration of the dihydro intermediates leads to loss of one oxygen atom from the starting polyhydroxy-benzene and the result was a new benzene-free synthesis of hydroquinone.