The first synthesis of octakis (arylthio) naphthalenes: an X-ray study of a novel pressure-induced colour and conformational change in crystalline octakis (phenylthio) …

RH Barbour, AA Freer, DD MacNicol

Index: Barbour, Robert H.; Freer, Andrew A.; MacNicol, David D. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1983 , # 7 p. 362 - 363

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Abstract

The title compound (1) and its octakis (β-naphthylthio) analogue (2), the first examples of per (arylthio) naphthalenes, have been synthesised in essentially quantitative yield by the reaction of octafluoronaphthalene with the sodium salt of the appropriate arenethiol in 1, 3- dimethylimidazolidin-2-one as solvent; a remarkable pressure-induced crystal transformation of unsolvated (1), studied by X-ray methods, has been discovered.