N-(9,10-Dioxo-9,10-dihydroanthracen-1-yl)-2-methylbenzamide
Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Al Khoudh 123, P.O. Box 36, Muscat, Oman
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Molbank 2020, 2020(4), M1175; https://doi.org/10.3390/M1175
Received: 24 November 2020 / Revised: 1 December 2020 / Accepted: 2 December 2020 / Published: 4 December 2020
(This article belongs to the Section Organic Synthesis)
In the present Short Note, we report a synthesis for the title compound, N-(9,10-dioxo-9,10-dihydroanthracen-1-yl)-2-methylbenzamide by reacting 2-methylbenzoyl chloride (or 2-methylbenzoic acid) with 1-aminoanthraquinone. The synthesized target compound was fully characterized by various spectroscopic methods (1H-NMR, 13C-NMR, IR, GC-MS). The importance of this compound lies its possession of an N,O-bidentate directing group, potentially suitable for metal-catalyzed C-H bond functionalization reactions.