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Modern Friedel-Crafts chemistry. Part-271. Alkylation of benzene with 1-benzyl- and 1-phenylcyclohexanols in the presence of H 2SO4 and AlCl3/CH3NO2 catalysts
Khalaf, Ali A.,Awad, Ibrahim M.,El-Emary, Talaat I.,Abd El-Aal, Hassan A. K.
, p. 1018 - 1022 (2007/10/03)
The alkylation of benzyene with 1-benzylcyclohexanol (3) gave a mixture of 2,3-benzobicyclo[3.3.1]nona-2-ene (8, 79%) and cyclohexyldiphenylmethane (10, 21%) with AlCl3/CH3NO2 catalyst and a mixture of 1-benzylcyclohexene 5 (47.5%), 8 (8%), 10 (21.5%), 1-cyclopentyl-1,2- diphenylethane (12, 18%) and 1-benzyl-1-phenylcyclohexene (13, 4%) with H 2SO4 catalyst. Treatment of 3 with AlCl 3/CH3NO2 in petroleum ether gave a mixture of 5 (26%) and 8 (62%). Attempted alkylation of benzene with 1-phenylcyclohexanol (4) in the presence of either AlCl3/CH3NO2 or H2SO4 catalyst gave 1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)-2- phenylcyclohexene (17) as sole product. Mechanistic interpretation of the results in terms of carbocation behaviour is offered.
