Anisole anthracene

Partial reduction of polyarenes has been reported. Use of boron trifluoride hydrate (BF3 OH2) as the acid in conjunction with triethylsilane causes the reduction of certain activated aromatic systems 217,262 Thus, treatment of anthracene with a 4-6 molar excess of BE3 OH2 and a 30% molar excess of triethylsilane gives 9,10-dihydroanthracene in 89% yield after 1 hour at room temperature (Eq. 120). Naphthacene gives the analogously reduced product in 88% yield under the same conditions. These conditions also result in the formation of tetralin from 1-hydroxynaphthalene (52%, 4 hours), 2-hydroxy naphthalene (37%, 7 hours), 1-methoxynaphthalene (37%, 10 hours), 2-methoxynaphthalene (26%, 10 hours), and 1-naphthalenethiol (13%, 6 hours). Naphthalene, phenanthrene, 1-methylnaphthalene, 2-naphthalenethiol, phenol, anisole, toluene, and benzene all resist reduction under these conditions.217 Use of deuterated triethylsilane to reduce 1-methoxynaphthalene gives tetralin-l,l,3-yielding information on the mechanism of these reductions.262 2-Mercaptonaphthalenes are reduced to 2,3,4,5-tetrahydronaphthalenes in poor to modest yields.217 263... 

Commercial PCB mixtures frequently contain impurities that may contribute to the 2,3,7,8-TCDD toxic equivalency factor. These impurities may include other PCBs, dioxins, dibenzofurans, naphthalenes, diphenyl ethers and toluenes, phenoxy and biphenyl anisoles, xanthenes, xanthones, anthracenes, and fluorenes (Jones etal. 1993). PCB concentrations in avian tissues sometimes correlate positively with DDE concentrations (Mora et al. 1993). Eggs of peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus) from California, for example, contained measurable quantities of various organochlorine compounds, including dioxins, dibenzofurans, mirex, hexachlorobenzene, and / ,//-DDE at 7.1 to 26.0 mg/kg FW PCB 126 accounted for 83% of the 2,3,7,8-TCDD equivalents, but its interaction with other detectable organochlorine compounds is largely unknown (Jarman et al. 1993). 

Since the latter conditions pertain to aromatic nitration solely via the homolytic annihilation of the cation radical in Scheme 16, it follows from the isomeric distributions in (81) that the electrophilic nitrations of the less reactive aromatic donors (toluene, mesitylene, anisole, etc.) also proceed via Scheme 19. If so, why do the electrophilic and charge-transfer pathways diverge when the less reactive aromatic donors are treated with other /V-nitropyridinium reagents, particularly those derived from the electron-rich MeOPy and MePy The conundrum is cleanly resolved in Fig. 17, which shows the rate of homolytic annihilation of aromatic cation radicals by NO, (k2) to be singularly insensitive to cation-radical stability, as evaluated by x. By contrast, the rate of nucleophilic annihilation of ArH+- by pyridine (k2) shows a distinctive downward trend decreasing monotonically from toluene cation radical to anthracene cation radical. Indeed, the... 

Early examples of electron transfer processes are shown in equations (2), (12), and (13). Birch in 1944 followed up the findings of Wooster, and demonstrated that Na metal and ethanol in ammonia reduce benzene, anisole, and other aromatics to 1,4-cyclohexadienes. Birch speculated about the mechanism of this reaction, but did not explicitly describe a radical pathway involving 55 (equation 87) until later, as described in his autobiography. Electron transfer from arenes was found by Weiss in 1941, who obtained crystalline salts of Ci4H]o from oxidation of anthracene. ... 

Step. As an example the role of an ET step in the interaction between dibenzodioxin and thianthrene radical cation with aromatic donors such as anisole and anthracene has been evaluated through kinetic studies [37]. 

Staggered configurations have also been observed for the tricarbonyl chromium complexes of phenanthrene 294, 295), 9,10-dihydro-phenanthrene 293, 295), anthracene 202), naphthalene 262), and 1-aminonaphthalene 58). The eclipsed configuration has been observed for the tricarbonyl complexes of anisole (57, 229), toluidine 60, 61), methylbenzoate (59), o-methoxyacetylbenzene, o-hydroxyacetylbenzene 101), 2-methoxy-[l-hydroxy-ethyl]benzene (99), and 2-methyl-[l-hydroxy-l-phenylpropyl]benzene (97). It is apparent that the orientation of the chromium tricarbonyl moiety is in many cases controlled by the substituents on the ring to which it is coordinated, and this has been attributed to mesomeric electron repulsion or withdrawal by the substituents 374). 

The anodic methoxylation of aromatic compounds such as naphthalene [41], anthracene [42], alkylbenzenes [31,43], phenols [44-46], anisoles [33,47-54] and other alkoxyben-zenes [53], methoxynaphthalenes [33], methoxyanthracenes [50,54], inden-l-ones [55], / a/r/-substituted anilides [56] and heterocyclic compounds, such as furans [57], thiophenes [58], and pyrroles [59], has received considerable attention. 

Related to these coupling reactions is the reaction between an anodically generated radical cation, for example, derived from anthracene or 9-phenyl anthracene, and a carbon nucleophile such as anisole, toluene or benzene [Eq. (71)] [248]. 

Iodine in trace amounts has been used as catalyst in Friedel-Crafts acylations of furane and thiophene and of more active members of the benzene series such as anisole and acetanilide. " Oddly enough, it is not effective for benzoylation of anthracene.""... 

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