Tetrahedron

Dispironaphthalenones and spironaphthalenones as novel dehydrogenation reagents

TR Kasturi, JA Sattigeri

Index: Kasturi, Tirumalai R.; Sattigeri, Jitendra A. Tetrahedron, 1992 , vol. 48, # 31 p. 6439 - 6444

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Abstract

Dehydrogenation of a number of dihydroaromatic substrates has been carried out using either dispironaphthalenone 1 or spironaphthalenones 2 & 3 as dehydrogenating agents. The reaction is over in refluxing mesitylene in 1–hr and the yields of the aromatised products are fairly good (65–70%).