Conversion of 2,3,8,9-dibenzo-4,7-Dimethyl-5,6-dihydro-1,10 phenanthroline to Dibenzo[b,j][1,10]phenanthrolines

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated and explained the low conversion efficiency of 2,3,8,9-dibenzo-4,7-Dimethyl-5,6-dihydro-1,10-phenanthroline (2) to 5,8-dimethyl-Dibenzo[b,j][1,10] phenanthrolines (1) and the reactivity of the 1. Chemistry from similar systems predicted a generally unreactive system, with any reactivity centered at the heteroaromatic rings. Several oxidized products from 2 were also reported.