Facile one-pot fluorination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) with N-fluoro-2,4-dinitroimidazole; scope and limitation
作者:Kenneth K. Laali、Mutsuo Tanaka、Farhad Forohar、Michael Cheng、John C. Fetzer
DOI:10.1016/s0022-1139(98)00224-3
日期:1998.9
The synthetic utility of N-fluoro-2,4-dinitro-imidazole 'NF-2,4-DNI', a recently introduced NF fluorinating agent, has been tested for direct one-pot fluorination of several classes of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PAHs, namely pyrene, crowded alkyl(cycloalkyl)-pyrenes; hexahydro- and tetrahydro-pyrene; benzo[a] anthracene; benzo[a]- and benzo[e]pyrene; perylene; 2,7-di-tert-butylphenanthrene; chrysene; 9-methylanthracene and anthracene, as well as trans-15, 16-dimethyl-dihydropyrene; azuleno[1,2-a] acenaphthylene and azulene. Although the isolated yields are modest, the ease of handling of the reagent, simple operation (reflux in dichloroethane for 3 days) and the use of 1.1 equivalent of the reagent makes the procedure quite attractive for polynuclear aromatics, avoiding multi-step operations (NO2-PAH-->NH2-PAH-->N-2(+)-PAH-->F-PAH) or the use of toxic or costly reagents (CF3OF, XeF2, etc.); it provides direct one-pot access to a variety of F-PAHs that are not readily made using other fluorinating agents. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.