Akira Sugimoto, Keisuke Matsumoto, Hideyuki Maruyama, Kazuhiko Mizuno and Kaku Uehara
The title compound in refluxing toluene decomposed to 9-anthrylmethyl derivatives and phenazine as major products upon cleavage of the N–CH2 bond; the orbital interaction of which with π-orbitals of the aromatic ring was suggested by the X-ray crystal structure analysis.