(2) Julian and Cole, ibid., 67, 1607 (1935). THIS JOURNAL,'70, 2058 (1948). versions is the tendency to form the more stable aromatic structure of anthracene. In the present investigation we were interested at the outset in knowing how a free radical would behave which resulted from removal of X in formula I above. A more fortunate selection for the first study of a free radical of this general structure would seem to reside in the removal of ...