“…In the reaction of NCS, the conversion was very slow, an unknown compound was isolated in low yield, whereas no desired chlorinated benzo[b]fluorenone was detected. Moreover, when one equivalent of a typical radical scavenger, [18] such as BHT, styrene or TEMPO, was added individually as an additive under the standard conditions, the corresponding reactions were not obviously suppressed. In addition, Selectfluor was added into the raction in order to prepare the fluorinated analogues, however, no positive result was obtained.…”