“…2 Since this route involved both 1,2,3,4-tetrafluoro-9(10H)-acridone and 9-chloro-1,2,3,4-tetrafluoroacridine as intermediates, it possessed potential as a source of several other derivatives of 1,2,3,4-tetrafluoroacridine; however, this opportunity seems not to have been pursued, although the development of other routes to 1,2,3,4-tetrafluoro-9(10H)-acridone (electrochemical oxidation of 2-amino-3,4,5,6-tetrafluorobenzophenone; KF-driven cyclization of 2-amino-2,3,4,5,6-pentafluorobenzophenone) was undertaken, and this led to the synthesis of octafluoro-9(10H)-acridone. 3,4 Of more relevance to the work described in detail 1 here are reports concerning fluorinated acridones from Russian researchers in the 1970s, notably that (i) thermal treatment of methyl pentafluorophenyl ketone with aniline affords, inter alia, 3-anilino-1,2,4-trifluoro-9-methylacridine 5 (a reaction extended later to derivatives of aniline 6 ) and (ii) the preparation of 1,2,3,4-tetrafluoroacridine (1a) from pentafluorobenzaldehyde and the Grignard reagent PhNHMgBr. 7 The work reported here stemmed from a serenedipitous discovery, made during mass spectrometric studies on fluorinated Schiff bases, 8,9 that condensation of pentafluorobenzaldehyde with p-anisidine under forcing conditions yields 4-methoxy-N-(pentafluorobenzylidene)aniline (4b) contaminated with, inter alia, a product of molecular formula C 14 H 7 F 4 NO.…”