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XXI.—The Synthesis of Some Methyl- and Dimethylfluoranthenes*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2012

H. F. Andrew ,
Neil Campbell ,
E. M. Swan  and
N. H. Wilson
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Abstract

3-Methylfluorene-9-propionic acid (1) with hydrofluoric acid undergoes ring-closure on the substituted ring to give 1,2,3,10b-tetrahydro-5-methylfluoranthen-3-one (II).

Wolff-Kishner reduction of the ketone yielded l,2,3,10b-tetrahydro-5-methylfluoranthene which on dehydrogenation gave 2-methylfluoranthene (III, R=H) identical with a sample prepared according to the method of Tucker (1952) and differing from 8-methylfluoranthene. This proved that ring-closure of (I) had occurred as expected on the methyl-bearing benzene ring. In this instance ring-closure occurs in the position meta to the methyl group and is reminiscent of the similar ring-closure of 2-phenyl-2-p-tolylpropionic acid to give 6-methyl-3-phenylindanone (Pfeiffer and Roos 1941). It thus provided a further example of the limitations of von Braun's statement that Friedel-Crafts ring-closure occurs much less readily at the position meta to a methyl group than on a phenyl ring (von Braun, Manz and Reinsch 1928).

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 69 , Issue 4 , 1972 , pp. 281 - 286
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1972

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