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Study on the reactivity of diarylmethane derivatives in supercritical alcohols media: Reduction of diarylmethanols and diaryl ketones to diarylmethanes using …

B Hatano, D Kubo, H Tagaya

Index: Hatano, Bunpei; Kubo, Daisuke; Tagaya, Hideyuki Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin, 2006 , vol. 54, # 9 p. 1304 - 1307

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Abstract

We found that diarylmethanols and diaryl ketones were smoothly reduced to the corresponding diarylalkanes using supercritical 2-propanol in good yields. Furthermore, we determined the specific reaction of fluorene using supercritical methanol at high temperature.