Novel direct reduction of diaryl ketones
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Bunpei Hatano; Hideyuki Tagaya
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Article
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2003
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Elsevier Science
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French
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We found that diaryl ketones reduce directly to diaryl alkanes under supercritical 2-propanol. This method was applied to one-pot synthesis of anthracene from anthraquinone derivatives by the addition of sulfur in excellent yields.