170810-97-6Relevant articles and documents
Solvent-promoted E2 reaction competing with SN2 reaction and stepwise solvolytic elimination and substitution reactions
Meng, Qingshui,Thibblin, Alf
, p. 9399 - 9407 (1995)
Solvolysis of 9-(1-X-ethyl)fluorene (1-X, X = I, Br, Cl, OTs, or OBs) in 25 vol % acetonitrile in water gives the elimination products 9-(1-ethylidene)fluorene (3) and 9-vinylfluorene (2) and the substitution products 9-(1-hydroxyethyl)fluorene (1-OH) and