Novel rearrangement of the 9H-fluorene system into the 1H- and 3H-fluorene systems
Abstract
Two dehydroanthrones, 11H-indeno[1,2-b]-anthracen-11-one and 7H-indeno[2,1-a]anthracen-7-one, have been obtained in the pyrolysis of 2-o-toluoylfluorene—a first example of a rearrangement of the ordinary 9H-fluorene system into the tautomeric 3H- and 1H-fluorene ones.