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1026<br />

Cleavage of carbon-carbon bonds<br />

products are heated; derivatives of dihydrobenzene or of benzene are thus<br />

obtained according as the diene synthesis was effected with an olefinic or an<br />

acetylenic component: 74<br />

+ CO<br />

If the olefinic component contains hydrogen on each of the doubly bonded<br />

carbon atoms, then loss of carbon monoxide is frequently accompanied by<br />

dehydrogenation to an aromatic system.<br />

Tetraphenylphthalic anhydride: Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone (tetracyclone) and maleic<br />

anhydride in boiling benzene give an almost quantitative yield of the normal adduct, 7-oxobicyclo[2.2.1]hept-5-ene-2,3-dicarboxylicanhydride.<br />

If this primary adduct is heated in chlorobenzene<br />

it loses carbon monoxide, passing into l,2-dihydro-3,4,5,6-tetraphenylphthalic<br />

anhydride. If, finally, the condensation is carried out in boiling nitrobenzene the solvent<br />

acts as dehydrogenating agent and tetraphenylphthalic anhydride is produced directly. Thus<br />

this diene synthesis affords three different products according to the nature of the solvent<br />

used.<br />

QH QH<br />

Hexaphenylbenzene can be obtained analogously from tetraphenylcyclopentadienone<br />

and tolane.<br />

III. Removal of other fragments<br />

Thermal cleavage of a carbon-carbon bond with formation of fragments<br />

other than carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide is relatively rarely of value on<br />

a laboratory scale. The examples described in the succeeding Subsections<br />

constitute cases that are worth noting.<br />

74 W. Foerst, "Neuere Methoden der praparativen Chemie," Verlag Chemie, Weinheim,<br />

1949, Vol. 1, p. 311.<br />

CO

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