Mechanochemistry of some hydrocarbons

✍ Scribed by Leslie D. Field; Sever Sternhell; Howard V. Wilton

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 546 KB
• Volume: 53
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0040-4020
• DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4020(97)00017-3

✦ Synopsis

Aromatic hydrocarbons (biphenyl, naphthalene, anthracene and phenanthrene) were subjected to ball milling (SPEX ® 8000) with approximately ten-fold weight of inorganic materials (alumina or silica). ARer about 24 h all of the hydrocarbons were converted largely to carbon (graphite), but at intermediate stages disproportionation products (tetralin, phenylcyclohexane, bicyclohexyl, 9,10-dihydroanthracene, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroanthracene, 1,2,3,4,4a,9,9a,10-octahydroanthracene, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydroanthracene, 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene, 1,2,3,4-tetrahydrophenanthrene, 1,2,3,4,4a,9,9a,10-octahydrophenanthrene, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,$-octahydrophenanthrene) were also obtained in significant yields.