The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Regioselective catalytic hydrogenation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons under mild conditions

PP Fu, HM Lee, RG Harvey

Index: Fu, Peter P.; Lee, Hong M.; Harvey, Ronald G. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1980 , vol. 45, # 14 p. 2797 - 2803

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 72

Abstract

Hydrogenation of polynuclear hydrocarbons over a palladium catalyst at low pressure and ambient temperature affords regiospecifically the corresponding K-region dihydroarenes, while analogous reactions over a platinum catalyst takle place regioselectively on terminal rings to provide the related tetrahydroarenes. Hydrogenation over palladium of phenanthrene, benz [a] anthracene, 7, 12-dimethylbenz [a] anthracene, benzo [a] pyrene, ...