Highly brominated anthracenes as precursors for the convenient synthesis of 2,9,10-trisubstituted anthracene derivatives

• Osman Cakmak,
• Leyla Aydogan,
• Kiymet Berkil,
• Ilhami Gulcin and
• Orhan Buyukgungor

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2008, 4, No. 50, doi:10.3762/bjoc.4.50

• tribromide 12 was transformed to trimethoxy compound 13 and trinitrile 14 by copper-assisted nucleophilic substitution reactions. Keywords: anthracene derivative; bromination; bromoanthracene; cyanoanthracene; methoxyanthracene; Introduction Anthracene derivatives have been extensively investigated in many