Expeditious synthesis of fluorinated styrylbenzenes and polyaromatic hydrocarbons

AV Bedekar, AR Chaudhary, MS Sundar, M Rajappa

Index: Bedekar, Ashutosh V.; Chaudhary, Anju R.; Shyam Sundar; Rajappa, Murali Tetrahedron Letters, 2013 , vol. 54, # 5 p. 392 - 396

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Abstract

A series of fluorinated styrylbenzene derivatives were synthesized by the Mizoroki–Heck reaction using phosphine-free catalytic conditions or by adopting the one-pot Wittig–Heck reaction sequence. The fluorinated styrylbenzenes were converted into polyaromatic hydrocarbons such as phenanthrenes,[4] helicenes, and benzo [ghi] perylene by a modified photocyclization procedure involving I2-THF condition.