Generation of arenium ions by a self-protonation reaction in an aprotic molten salt medium

AC Buchanan III, AS Dworkin…

Index: Buchanan, A. C.; Dworkin, A. S.; Smith, G. P. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1980 , vol. 102, # 16 p. 5262 - 5265

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Abstract: We have examined the reaction behavior of a group of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the aprotic liquid SbCI,-lO mol% AlCl, from 100 to 130 OC by'H NMR and by quench and separation techniques. For anthracene, pyrene, 9, lO-dimethylanthracene, 9, IO- diphenylanthracene, and naphthacene, we have observed a novel arene self-protonation reaction for which the proton source is the condensation-dehydrogenation of a portion of ...