Herein, we report a safe and economical multigramsynthesis of 6-fluoromenadione, an intermediate in the synthesis of novel biologically active agents. The key to this six-step sequence process involves the condensation of the readily available starting 4′-fluoropropiophenone and glyoxylic acid, a bromination–elimination sequence from 7-fluoro-3-methyltetral-1-one allowing aromatization of the naphthol