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Magnesium Adducts of Substituted Anthracenes - Preparation and Properties
Bogdanovic, Borislav,Janke, Nikolaus,Kinzelmann, Hans-Georg,Seevogel, Klaus,Treber, Joachim
, p. 1529 - 1535 (2007/10/02)
2-Methyl-, 1,4-dimethyl-, 9-methyl-, 9-ethyl-, 9,10-dimethyl-, and 9-phenylanthracene (1a-f) react with magnesium in THF at room temperature to afford the corresponding substituted magnesium anthracenes 2a-f. 9,10-Diphenylanthracene (1g), however, reacts with magnesium under the same conditions to produce the deep-blue magnesium bis(9,10-diphenylanthracenide) * 6 THF (4g).Upon heating to 60 deg C in THF, 4g reversibly dissociates to give magnesium 9,10-diphenylanthracene * 3 THF (2g) and 1g, while prolonged heating at 60 deg C causes decomposition of 2g to active magnesium (Mg*) and 1g.In THF 2a-c, e, and f exhibit temperature-dependent equilibria with 1a-c, e, and f and magnesium.Compared with magnesium anthracene * 3 THF (2), these equilibria are strongly shifted toward substituted anthracenes and magnesium, and only at 0 deg C high conversions are achieved.The magnesium exchange between 2 and the substituted anthracenes 1a, b, and f in THF has been experimentally verified. 2a, e, and f react with organic halides in the same way as 2, however, in the case of allyl, propargyl, and benzyl chloride the yields of Grignard compounds are lower than for 2; with bromobenzene, the tendency for the radical transfer reaction is stronger than for 2.Magnesium 9,10-dimethylanthracene (2e) reacts with ethyl acetate to give the bicyclic tertiary alcohol 9 by an intramolecular C-C coupling reaction.
