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Microwave-assisted Intramolecular Dehydrogenative Diels-Alder Reactions for the Synthesis of Functionalized Naphthalenes/Solvatochromic Dyes
Published on: April 1, 2013
1,6-Bis(prop-2-yn-1-yl-oxy)naphthalene
Qin-Wan Yang1, Jingu Shi, Tao Pang
1Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The title compound, C(16)H(12)O(2), contains two prop-2-yn-1-yl-oxy groups attached to a naphthalene ring system at the 1- and 6-positions. The crystal packing includes an inter-molecular C-H⋯π inter-action between a terminal ethynyl H atom and an ethynyl group on a glide-related mol-ecule and another inter-action between an O-atom-linked methyl-ene H and an ethynyl group of a different glide-related mol-ecule.
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