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Usage

Appearance

Yellow solid

Molecular weight

232.28 g/mol

Chemical structure

A derivative of anthracene, a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

Potential applications

a. Organic synthesis
b. Material science
c. Medicinal chemistry

Properties

a. Fluorescent, useful in research and development of optical materials
b. Potential biological activities

Utility

Can be used as a building block in the synthesis of other organic compounds

Upstream product

• 90-44-8 anthracen-9(10H)-one 
• 62-53-3 aniline 

Downstream Products

• 84-65-1 9,10-phenanthrenequinone 
• 105501-87-9 10-(2-Hydroxy-4,4-dimethyl-6-oxo-cyclohex-1-enylsulfanyl)-10H-anthracen-9-one 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Reaction of anthrone and its 1- and 4-substituted derivatives with sulfur in the presence of nucleophiles

Anthrone and its 1-substituted derivatives react with molecular sulfur in the presence of nucleophiles (aromatic amines, hydrazine, substituted hydrazines, and malononitrile) to give intermediate monothioanthraquinones which are then converted into mixtures of the corresponding anthraquinones and 10-imino-, 10-hydrazono-, or 10-dicyanomethylene-9,10-dihydroanthracen-9-ones. Unlike 1-substituted derivatives, 4-substituted anthrones react with sulfur in the presence of phenylhydrazine to give only 1-substituted anthraquinones.

Thionation of anthrone with sulfur

The reaction of anthrone with sulfur at room temperature in DMF in the presence of catalytic amounts of pyridine afforded alongside oxidation and dimerization products also thionated compound, monothioanthraquinone.