Aromatic Cyclodehydrogenation. I. 4-Methylfluorene from 2, 2'-Dimethylbiphenyl1

M Orchin, EO Woolfolk

Index: Orchin; Woolfolk Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1945 , vol. 67, p. 122

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Abstract

The products obtained by the hydrogenation or carbonization of coal are, in part, assumed to be present in the original coal structure and to arise from the catalytic or thermal “depolymerization” of coaL3 We have been interested in the possibility that some of the condensed aromatic nuclei obtained from coal by these processes result from less highly cyclic structures by the thermal or catalytic intramolecular loss of hydrogen. Such ...