“…Bearing this in mind, the authors have continued their crystallographic study of homologous and analogous peri-aroylnaphthalene compounds for elucidation of the correlation between molecular structure, crystal packing and non-covalent bonding interactions. As one of the readily performable reactions of peri-aroylnaphthalene compounds, a Zn-mediated reductive coupling to 1,2-diaryl-1,2-acenaphthenediol has been discovered (Mido et al, 2017(Mido et al, , 2020. Herein, the crystal structure of 1,2-bis(4-fluorophenyl)-1-hydroxy-2,3,8-trimethoxyacenaphthene (I), a monoalkoxylated derivative of a pinacol-coupling product, is reported and its structural features are discussed through comparison with homologues.…”