The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Nitrogen analogs of o-xylylenes

YL Mao, V Boekelheide

Index: Mao, Yuh-lin; Boekelheide, V. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1980 , vol. 45, # 8 p. 1547 - 1548

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Abstract

Summary: The gas-phase pyrolysis of o-hydroxymethylanilines provides simple, one-step syntheses of acridines, acridones, and quinoline derivatives. The ease with which nitrogen analogues of o-xylylenes are formed during pyrolysis suggests that the methodology currently used in the synthetic applications of benzocyclobutenes can be employed with these azo-o-xylylenes to yield a variety of heterocycles and polycyclic amines.