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2,7-Dimethylnaphthalene

Organic Chemistry Division, Laboratory of Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis, Faculty of Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, C.P. 160-06, 50 Ave. F. D. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. 2,7-Dimethylnaphtalene is a stable, white, crystalline solid with a melting point of 95-96°C. 2,7-Disubstituted derivatives of naphthalene are less common in the library of commercial fine chemicals. As a consequence, the development of new synthetic routes to 2,7-dimethylnaphthalene will permit an easy access to a large family of 2,7-disubstituted naphthalenes. The Scheme below indicates a few synthetic uses of 2,7-dimethylnaphtalene from its dibromination with NBS (1,2).

 

References
(1) Kolber, I. Mémoire ULB, 1997.
(2) Terfort, A.; Görls, H.; Brunner, H. Synthesis 1997, 79-86.