Anthracenes => aromatic aldehydes

The chloromethylation can be generally employed in aromatic chemistry benzene, naphthaline, anthracene, phenanthrene, biphenyls and many derivatives thereof are appropriate substrates. The benzylic chlorides thus obtained can be further transformed, for example to aromatic aldehydes. Ketones like benzophe-none are not reactive enough. In contrast phenols are so reactive that polymeric products are obtained. ... 

Rhodium(II) acetate catalyzes C—H insertion, olefin addition, heteroatom-H insertion, and ylide formation of a-diazocarbonyls via a rhodium carbenoid species (144—147). Intramolecular cyclopentane formation via C—H insertion occurs with retention of stereochemistry (143). Chiral rhodium (TT) carboxamides catalyze enantioselective cyclopropanation and intramolecular C—N insertions of CC-diazoketones (148). Other reactions catalyzed by rhodium complexes include double-bond migration (140), hydrogenation of aromatic aldehydes and ketones to hydrocarbons (150), homologation of esters (151), carbonylation of formaldehyde (152) and amines (140), reductive carbonylation of dimethyl ether or methyl acetate to 1,1-diacetoxy ethane (153), decarbonylation of aldehydes (140), water gas shift reaction (69,154), C—C skeletal rearrangements (132,140), oxidation of olefins to ketones (155) and aldehydes (156), and oxidation of substituted anthracenes to anthraquinones (157). Rhodium-catalyzed hydrosilation of olefins, alkynes, carbonyls, alcohols, and imines is facile and may also be accomplished enantioselectively (140). Rhodium complexes are moderately active alkene and alkyne polymerization catalysts (140). In some cases polymer-supported versions of homogeneous rhodium catalysts have improved activity, compared to their homogenous counterparts. This is the case for the conversion of alkenes direcdy to alcohols under oxo conditions by rhodium—amine polymer catalysts... 

The synthesis [25, 26] began with 7-bromo-l-tetralone (7), available in multigram quantity in three steps from succinic anhydride and bromobenzene [27, 28] (Scheme 1). Treatment of 7 with an aromatic aldehyde and base produces the corresponding benzylidene (e.g., 8) which couples with 7 in boron trifluoride etherate to form a pyrylium salt. This pyrylium salt is not isolated but treated with ammonia to afford functionalized spacer 9. As seen in Scheme 1, the attachment of anthracene [29] or acridine chromophores occurs in a single step. Alternatively, stepwise attachment of the aromatic chromophores allows construction of molecular tweezers 12 and 13 carrying different chromophores. With respect to efficiency, tweezers 10 and 11 are synthesized in six steps from inexpensive starting materials with overall yields of 11% and 14%, respectively. 

Hydroxycarbonium ions are generated by protonation of ketones and aldehydes, and can effect alkylation of the aromatic ring. Usually, the products of such reactions, being substituted benzyl alcohols, are also subject to further transformations. The formation of disubstituted anthracenes from benzene and an aromatic aldehyde is illustrative ... 

Reactions of partial electrochemical oxidation are of considerable interest in the electrosynthesis of various organic compounds. Thus, at gold electrodes in acidic solutions, olefins can be oxidized to aldehydes, acids, oxides, and other compounds. A good deal of work was invested in the oxidation of aromatic compounds (benzene, anthracene, etc.) to the corresponding quinones. To this end, various mediating redox systems (e.g., the Ce /Ce system) are employed (see Section 13.6). 

This aldehyde synthesis is applicable to compounds of the aromatic series having a labile hydrogen atom (phenyl ethers,1 naphthols,2 dialkylanilines,3-4 naphthostyril,2 anthrones 2) and to certain hydrocarbons of requisite reactivity (anthracene,5-6 7 1,2-benzanthracene,6 3,4-benzpyrene,3 7 pyrene,8 styrene,9 and a, a-diarylethylenes 9). With polynuclear hydrocarbons the best results are secured by the use of a solvent such as o-dichloro-benzene. 9-Anthraldehyde has also been prepared by the action of hydrogen cyanide and aluminum chloride on anthracene in chlorobenzene.10... 

Aliphatic aldehydes and ketones and also aliphatic-aromatic ketones can be converted into the corresponding hydrocarbons alkyl-phenols can be obtained from phenolic-aldehydes and -ketones p-hydroxy-benzophenone yields p-benzylphenol benzoin and benzil yield dibenzyl anthraquinone yields anthracene dihydride. 

Many completely aromatic polynuclear hydrocarbons are readily formed by cyclization of aryl-substituted aldehydes, ketones, or related compounds. The simplest case is the formation of naphthalene by refluxing (fi-styrylacetaldehyde, C HsCH = CHCH2CHO, with hydrobromic acid-acetic acid mixture. " The ring closure has found extensive use in the synthesis of 9-alkyl- and 9 aryl-anthracenes and phenanthrenes. " ... 

The reaction of aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes with (Me2Al)2Se in the presence of anthracene gives the [4+2] cycloadducts 83. Thermally generated selenoaldehydes from 83 react with 5-ethoxyoxazoles to afford 3-selenazolines 84 as a mixture of diastereomers (Scheme 18) <2005PS1045>. 

Besides the aromatic hydrocarbons the Ea of a number of aromatic carbonyl compounds have been determined using the ECD. These include substituted acetophenones, benzaldehydes, benzophenones, benzoates, phthalates, acetonaphthone, naphthaldehydes, and anthracene and phenanthrene aldehydes. Like the aromatic hydrocarbons, the majority of these compounds only undergo nondissociative... 

The photoreduction efficiency of carbonyl compounds such as 9,10-anthraquinone, 1,4-anthraquinone, 6,13-pentacenequinone, and 2-phenyl-9.10-anthraquinone, in the presence of anthracene, pyrene, naphthalene, biphenyl, 1,4-benzoquinone, and 1,4-naphthoqulnone has been shown to depend on the relative positions and nature of the electronic levels of the substrate and acceptor. Photoreduction of aromatic ketones to alcohols or pinacols can be catalysed by CdS powders using triethylamine as sacrificial donor in MeCN, and morphology is reported by the same authors to affect the two-electron transfer photoreductions of aromatic ketones on CdS induced by visible llghti under analogous conditions olefins behave similarly. Aldehydes of the type RCHO (R -jB -tolyl, g-anlsyl, hexyl) have been photoreduced to the corresp>onding... 

The Vilsmeier-Haack reaction of electron-rich carbocyclic aromatic compounds (Ar—H) with chloromethyleneiminium salt (1) gives aldehyde derivatives (Ar—CHO), generally in good yield. The intermediate iminium salt (cf. salt 5 Scheme 1) can be treated with hydroxylamine to obtain nitrile derivatives (Ar—CN). Benzene and naphthalene are not sufTiciently electron rich to participate in the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction, but polycyclic hydrocarbons, such as anthracene, do react. Benzene and naphthalene derivatives that possess an electron-releasing substituent (—OMe,—SMe,—NMe2, etc.) af-... 

An extension of the use of polynuclear aromatic materials is provided by polymers of structure (4), where fluorene, naphthalene, phenanthrene and anthracene chromophores have been attached to poly(vinyl octal) [20]. These polymers were synthesized by standard acetal formation of poly(vinyl alcohol) with octyl aldehyde and the chromophoric aldehyde. The concentration of chromophore in the polymer was controlled by changing the ratio of mixed aldehydes. These... 

Aromatic hydrocarbons with aliphatic side chains, e.g., toluene, do not form mercapturic acids at all. Instead, the side chain is oxidized to a carboxyl group. Similarly, alcohols, aldehydes, phenols, etc., are not converted to mercapturic acids. On polycyclic hydrocarbons, a methyl group may be slowly attacked. 7-Methyh and 12-methylbenz(a)anthra cene form traces of mercapturic acids but 7,l2-diraethylbenz a)anthracene forms none. 

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