Acenaphtho derivatives have been reported as antitumor agents. So, the reaction of acenaphthylene-1,2-dione with 3,4-diaminobenzenethiol, and then with the alkyl chloride derivatives for the synthesis of acenaphtho [1,2-b] quinoxalines are reviewed. Excellent yields of the products, short reaction times and simple work-up are attractive features of this suitable protocol.

Confined environments can be used to alter the selectivity of a reaction by influencing the organization of the reactants, altering the mobility of trapped molecules, facilitating one reaction pathway or selectively stabilizing the products. This manuscript utilizes a series of potentially photoreactive guests to interrogate the utility of the one-dimensional nanochannels of a porous host to ab...

Ligand exchange reactions between [Cp*Ru(NCMe)3][PF6], where Cp* represents η(5)-C5Me5, and the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) pyrene, acenaphthylene and fluoranthene afforded the known [Cp*Ru(η(6)-pyrene)][PF6] (1) and the new mixed sandwiches [Cp*Ru(η(6)-acenaphthylene)][PF6] (2) and [Cp*Ru(η(6)-fluoranthene)][PF6] (3), respectively, isolated in quantitative yields (94-100%). Complex...

Many chemical reactions which are otherwise clean often lead to the formation of multiple products. Such products may be formed due to a lack of chemo-, regio- and/or stereoselectivity. For such reactions to be useful, one should be able to control them to yield a single desired product. Of the many approaches used in this context, the use of reaction media with features different from those of...

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (pah) plays an important role in the formation of combustion-generatedparticles such as soot, and their presence in atmosphere aerosols has been widely shown. the formation of five-membered rings, detected in combustion effluent, is of great interest due to their genotoxic activity.the present study reports an investigation of the electronic structure of acenapht...

Formation pathways for high-molecular-mass compound growth are presented, showing why reactions between aromatic moieties are needed to explain recent experimental findings. These reactions are then analyzed by using quantum mechanical density functional methods. A sequence of chemical reactions between aromatic compounds (e.g., phenyl) and compounds containing conjugated double bonds (e.g., ac...