Journal of Organic Chemistry p. 2796 - 2802 (1983)
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Benkeser, Robert A.
Belmonte, Frank G.
Kang, Jahyo
A new reducing system consisting of calcium dissolved in a mixture of amines (methylamine-ethylenediamine) is described.Representative aromatic hydrocarbons have been reduced by this new reagent largely to monoalkenes.Hydrocarbons like tetralin, m- and p-xylene, and indan are reduced in excellent yields by the calcium system to a crude product containing 88percent or better of a single alkene.A new technique involving oxymercuration-demercuration is used to purify two of the monoalkene isomer mixtures obtained in these reductions.Unexpectedly, durene is reduced by the calcium reagent to 1,2,4,5-tetramethyl-1,4-cyclohexadiene in excellent yield.Likewise anthracene is reduced in one step to 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10-decahydroanthracene.Experiments designed to elucidate why the calcium system does not reduce durene or anthracene to monoalkenes are described.Similarities and differences between the calcium-amine and the lithium-amine reducing systems are discussed.
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