117-12-4Relevant articles and documents
Efficient reductive Claisen rearrangement of prop-2’-enyloxyanthraquinones and 2’-chloroprop-2’-enyloxyanthraquinones with iron powder in ionic liquids
Nadali, Samaneh,Khoshroo, Ali,Aghapour, Ghasem
, p. 883 - 895 (2018)
A rapid and selective iron-mediated reductive Claisen rearrangement of various prop-2’-enyloxyanthraquinones and 2’-chloroprop-2’-enyloxyanthraquinones to 1-hydroxy-2-(prop-2’-enyl)anthraquinones and anthrafurandiones is presented. All reactions are carried out in a mixture of ionic liquids, [Bzmim]Cl (1-benzyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride) and [Hmim]BF4 (1-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate), in short reaction times (5–35 min). Our study showed that 1-(prop-2’-enyloxy)anthraquinone is more active than 1-(2’-chloroprop-2’-enyloxy)anthraquinone to perform this rearrangement.
Photochemistry of 1, n -Dibenzyloxy-9,10-anthraquinones
Sarma, Saurav J.,Jones, Paul B.
supporting information; experimental part, p. 3806 - 3813 (2010/08/20)
Figure presented The photochemistry of a series of 9,10-anthraquinones with multiple benzyloxy substituents was investigated. In polar solvent, the expected Blankespoor oxidative cleavage reaction is the major reaction pathway, but in most cases, several minor products were observed. In nonpolar solvents, the abundance of these minor products increases dramatically. Four types of product were observed with the favored reaction pathway shifting with minor changes in substitution on the anthraquinone. Several types of product require cleavage of the C-O bond on the benzyloxy group and, apparently, follow a photo-Claisen-type mechanism. Others involve the expected 1,5-diradical but do not exhibit the single-electron transfer usually observed in the Blankespoor-type reaction. The results indicate the importance of considering the medium and photoredox behavior in anthraquinone photochemistry.
Pathway of anthracene modification under simulated solar radiation
Mallakin, Ali,George Dixon,Greenberg, Bruce M.
, p. 1435 - 1441 (2007/10/03)
Exposure of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to sunlight results in rapid structural photomodification generally via oxidation reactions. These PAH modification products are in many cases more toxic than their parent compounds. In this study, anthracene (ANT), a rapidly photooxidized PAH, was irradiated with simulated solar radiation (SSR, 100 μmol m-2 s- 1) in aqueous solution to examine the photomodification pathway. The photoproducts formed were identified by HPLC. The ANT product profile after 9 h in SSR was very complex, with more than 20 compounds detected. The photoproducts formed were anthraquinones, benzoic acids, benzaldehydes and phenols showing the process to be oxidative in nature. Some of the anthraquinones were themselves subject to photooxidation, and were thus intermediates in the product pathway. The kinetics of ANT photooxidation revealed a pseudo first-order reaction with a half-life of 2 h under the SSR source used. The kinetics of product formation allowed deduction of a probable photomodification pathway. This study indicates that PAH photooxidation products are likely to exist as complex, dynamically changing mixtures in PAH contaminated aquatic environments.