Issue 7, 2011
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Green Chemistry

Highly efficient synthesis of 9-fluorenones from 9H-fluorenes by air oxidation

Xin Zhang,ab   Xuan Ji,a   Shanshan Jiang,a   Lili Liu,a   Brandon L. Weeksb  and  Zhao Zhang*a  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China
E-mail: z.zhang@sxu.edu.cn
Fax: +86-351-7011688
Tel: +86-351-7011390

b Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
E-mail: xin.zhang@ttu.edu

Abstract

9-Fluorenones substituted with nitro, halogen, or alkyl groups can be easily obtained in high yield and purity by aerobic oxidation of 9H-fluorenes under ambient conditions in the presence of KOH in THF.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1GC15136C
Article type
Paper
Submitted
03 Feb 2011
Accepted
21 Apr 2011
First published
10 Jun 2011

Green Chem., 2011,13, 1891-1896

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Highly efficient synthesis of 9-fluorenones from 9H-fluorenes by air oxidation

X. Zhang, X. Ji, S. Jiang, L. Liu, B. L. Weeks and Z. Zhang, Green Chem., 2011, 13, 1891 DOI: 10.1039/C1GC15136C

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