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Microwave-assisted Intramolecular Dehydrogenative Diels-Alder Reactions for the Synthesis of Functionalized Naphthalenes/Solvatochromic Dyes
Published on: April 1, 2013
2,2'-Bis(meth-oxy-meth-oxy)-3,3'-diphenyl-1,1'-binaphthalene
Hua Zong1, Hua-Yin Huang, Bing Hu
1State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(36)H(30)O(4), contains two crystallographically independent mol-ecules of similar geometry. In both mol-ecules, the meth-oxy-meth-oxy groups are disordered over two positions with refined site occupancies of 0.613 (3):0.387 (3) and 0.589 (4):0.411 (4). The dihedral angles between the naphthalene planes within the same mol-ecule are 71.72 (7) and 71.73 (8)°. In the crystal, neighbouring mol-ecules are linked by inter-molecular C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming double chains parallel to the c axis.
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