1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octapropyl-9,10-dihydroanthracene → 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octapropylanthracene

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After 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyanoquinone (0.100 g, 0.440 mmol) was added to a solution of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octapropyl-9,10-dihydroanthracene (0.208 g, 0.400 mmol) in benzene (5 ml), the mixture was refluxed for an hour with heating. The reaction mixture was filtered to remove hydroquinone and purified by silica gel column chromatography (ethyl acetate/hexane, 99/1) to give the title compound (0.164 g) as a white solid. The isolation yield was 79%.

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