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Breslow studied the dimerisation of cyclopentadiene and the reaction between substituted maleimides and 9-(hydroxymethyl)anthracene in alcohol-water mixtures. He successfully correlated the rate constant with the solubility of the starting materials for each Diels-Alder reaction. From these relations he estimated the change in solvent accessible surface between initial state and activated complex " . Again, Breslow completely neglects hydrogen bonding interactions, but since he only studied alcohol-water mixtures, the enforced hydrophobic interactions will dominate the behaviour. Recently, also Diels-Alder reactions in dilute salt solutions in aqueous ethanol have been studied and minor rate increases have been observed Lubineau has demonstrated that addition of sugars can induce an extra acceleration of the aqueous Diels-Alder reaction . Also the effect of surfactants on Diels-Alder reactions has been studied. This topic will be extensively reviewed in Chapter 4. 

Early methods of following the reaction relied upon quantitative recovery of the anthracene derivative from the reaction mixture and in view of the extreme insolubility of these derivatives, this is one of the few reactions that can be accurately studied by product recovery methods. More recently, of course, the uv spectroscopic method has been used, the formation of the anthracene spectrum with time being measured. 

The fluorescence decrease in Figure 1 can be attributed to the consumption of the anthracene photosensitizer during the photosensitization reaction. The photosensitization proceeds by an electron transfer reaction from the anthracene to the initiator, resulting in loss of aromaticity of the of the central ring.17 Therefore, the photosensitization reaction leads to a disruption in the n electron structure of the anthracene, and the resulting molecule does not absorb at 364 nm (nor fluoresce in the 420 - 440 nm region). Hence, the steady-state fluorescence measurements allow the anthracene concentration to be monitored in situ while the photosensitization reaction takes place. 

A database is not usually a mere collection of values quoted from the literature. It commonly involves some critical assessment of those values and an effort to present a consistent set of data. It is important to clarify what we mean by consistency. Suppose that 40 years ago, somebody made a careful determination of the standard enthalpy of combustion of anthracene (reaction 2.20) and obtained Ac//°(Ci4Hio, cr) = X kJ mol-1. 

Several cases have been reported of sensitized chemical reaction from the triplet states of aromatic molecules. Anthracene triplets formed by triplet energy transfer from coronene react with carbon tetrachloride to yield, among other products, 9-chloroanthracene and hydrogen chloride,214 the same reaction which occurs upon direct excitation.215... 

We know that C6-cyclization of 1-(naphthyl-2)-butene is possible without metal catalysts. The products are dihydrophenanthrene over quartz and 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrophenanthrene plus phenanthrene over alumina (50). The latter apparently catalyzes the redistribution of hydrogen in dihydrophenanthrene. Neither anthracene nor dihydro- or tetrahydroanthracene are formed over quartz or alumina from 1-(naphthyl-2)-butene. Plate and Erivanskaya concluded from this that the 2-alkylnaphthalene - anthracene reaction does not involve naphthylbutene intermediate (27). 

The formation of anthracene 278 (Ar = Ph) directly from the corresponding 2-benzopyrylium salt 30 occurs in low yield, and the final result is dependent both on the nature of the alcohol used and on the concentration of the alkaline solution. Thus, on treatment of this salt 30 with 2% aqueous alkaline solution, 0-naphthol 209 was the only product, whereas with 50% concentration of alkaline solutions, anthracene 278 was formed, but in a yield of less than 20%. A somewhat better yield (40%) of 278 (Ar = Ph) was reached on carrying out the conversion of 2-benzopyrylium salt in isopropyl alcohol containing sodium isopropoxide. However, one can conclude that independent of conditions, the formation of anthracene 278 from 2-benzopyrylium salt in alkaline media does not occur via the intermediate diketone 29 (R1 = Me, R3 = Ph). This is because the latter compound gives rise only to j3-naphthol 209 under the reaction conditions. 

Lown et al. reported a simple retro [2 + 2] fragmentation of oxathietane (33) [prepared from tetramethylaziridine (32)] in aqueous medium, followed by trapping of thioacetone with anthracene (86JA3811,86JOC2116). Lee et al. trapped ethyl thioxoacetate from retro Diels-Alder fragmentation of a bicyclic precursor (35), which was prepared in a fascinating reaction from the aminocrotonate (34) and sulfur dichloride (85JOC3216). 

With increasing laser intensity the relative yields of products formed by second-order reactions (38-40) incretise with respect to the production of fluorene (37) from a first-order reaction. It is assumed that fluorene and diphenyl-anthracene originate from the singlet carbene, whereas diphenylphenanthrene (39) arises from either a triplet-singlet carbene dimerization or a triplet-triplet... 

Anthracene is reported to be a very efficient dienophile for neopentylsilenes [8], From the mixture of 2/LirBu/anthracene the [4+2] cycloadduct 11 was isolated [9], Further reaction of 11 with Li/Bu and anthracene yields the crystalline double cycloadduct 12. Alternatively, 12 can be synthesized in a one-step reaction, from 2 with 2 equivalents of LitBu and anthracene the results of the single crystal X-ray analysis of 12 is shown in Fig. 2. 

Limited numbers of studies have been reported on the properties of molecules in the T states. Two-color two-laser flash photolysis can be applied to study photoinduced reactions from the T states. It has been reported that the main reaction path from the T states is the triplet ENT to the triplet quenchers. To the best of our knowledge, there has been only one report on the ELT from the T state. Wang et al. [48] reported the ELT from anthracene(T2) to ethyl bromoacetate. However, no detailed mechanism of the ELT from the T state has been reported. In this section, we summarize our recent systematic study of the intermolecular ELT from a series of substituted naphthalenes (NpD) in the T state to electron acceptors [85, 86]. 

Diphenylcyclopropenes (106—108, Scheme 11) have been shown to quench the fluorescence of 9,10-dicyanoanthracene. When these compounds are irradiated in the presence of the anthracene, reaction products are obtained that are different from those obtained by either direct or triplet-sensitized irradiation. The route to products (Scheme 11) fits best with an electron-transfer process from the... 

Scheme 12. One anthracene derivative from the reaction of Ru,i(CO)i2 and diphenyl(9-anthracyl)-phosphine.

C3-quatemised 3-prenyl indolenines are accessible in an enantioselective manner by Pd-catalysed 3-allylation of 3-prenylindoles, as reported by Trost and Quancard in 2006 (Scheme 28) [122]. In addition to the Pd-source and the anthracene-derived chiral ligand 139, an optimised bulky tertiary borane (9-BBN-CgHi3) is added, which coordinates to the indole nitrogen, prevents N-allylation and also enhances the enantioselectivity of the reaction. The reaction from 138 to 140 is especially suitable for electron-rich indoles and could be tried with prenol as allylic alcohol. 

Although nucleophilic substitution of 3-halo-1,2,5-thiadiazoles is known, the symmetry of the heterocyclic nucleus prevents the detection of the aryne 567 by cine-substitution in the absence of isotopic labeling. An attempt to trap this species with anthracene (147) from the aprotic diazotization " of the amino acid 568 gave, instead of the heterotriptycene 569, a mixture of 9-nitro- (341) and 9-thiocyanoanthracene (570). The former compound is also observed in a similar reaction in the thiophene series (Section III.3.A.d) and could arise by direct nitration of anthracene with nitrous acid " present in the alkyl nitrite. 

The enthalpies of the formal reaction for transforming a condensed benzenoid to the corresponding C2-interpolated [TV] phenylene using the experimental enthalpies of formation for naphthalene, phenan-threne, chrysene and biphenylene and the calculated enthalpies of formation for 54 and 55 were the nearly constant ca. 267 kj/mol. From the extensive [A/ -phenylene enthalpies of formation provided and the enthalpies of formation in Table 1, the enthalpies of reaction of other cata- and peri-condensed hydrocarbons are (kJ/mol) as follows anthracene, 260 triphenylene, 260 benzo[cjphenanthrene, 259 benz-[a]anthracene, 259. From our derived enthalpies of formation for naphthacene and picene, the reaction enthalpies are 260 and 268 kJ/mol, respectively, demonstrating the plausibility of our estimates. 

Hofmann used a triptycene type backbone for preparing diphosphite 145, in overall 40% yield from three steps, starting from a conveniently substituted anthracene. Reaction of the substituted anthracene with dimethyl fumarate under microwave irradiation considerably reduced reaction time to prepare the triptycene derivative. After deprotection, the corresponding diol was then treated with chlorophosphite to give 145. The ligand was used in theoretical studies on rhodium(i)-catalysed hydroformylation of butadiene. The same authors also prepared iridium complex 146, from the already known diphosphite, which was used for the same purpose. 

The cases of pentamethylbenzene and anthracene reacting with nitronium tetrafluoroborate in sulpholan were mentioned above. Each compound forms a stable intermediate very rapidly, and the intermediate then decomposes slowly. It seems that here we have cases where the first stage of the two-step process is very rapid (reaction may even be occurring upon encounter), but the second stages are slow either because of steric factors or because of the feeble basicity of the solvent. The course of the subsequent slow decomposition of the intermediate from pentamethylbenzene is not yet fully understood, but it gives only a poor yield of pentamethylnitrobenzene. The intermediate from anthracene decomposes at a measurable speed to 9-nitroanthracene and the observations are compatible with a two-step mechanism in which k i k E and i[N02" ] > / i. There is a kinetic isotope effect (table 6.1), its value for the reaction in acetonitrile being near to the... 

Examples include luminescence from anthracene crystals subjected to alternating electric current (159), luminescence from electron recombination with the carbazole free radical produced by photolysis of potassium carba2ole in a fro2en glass matrix (160), reactions of free radicals with solvated electrons (155), and reduction of mtheiiium(III)tris(bipyridyl) with the hydrated electron (161). Other examples include the oxidation of aromatic radical anions with such oxidants as chlorine or ben2oyl peroxide (162,163), and the reduction of 9,10-dichloro-9,10-diphenyl-9,10-dihydroanthracene with the 9,10-diphenylanthracene radical anion (162,164). Many other examples of electron-transfer chemiluminescence have been reported (156,165). 

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