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(6-Phenanthridinylmethyl)magnesium halides do not react with aromatic and aliphatic aromatic ketones but do react with aromatic aldehydes to give the corresponding carbinols. The latter are readily dehydrated to the corresponding 6-styrylphenanthridines. 6-Cyanomethylphenanthridine reacts with aromatic aldehydes in the presence of sodium ethoxide to give 6-(α-cyanostyryl)phenanthridines and is converted to 5-acyl-6-cyanomethylene-5,6-dihydrophenanthridine on heating with acetic anhydride or benzoyl chloride.
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Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 8, pp. 1110–1115, August, 1974.
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Grishina, E.V., Zakhs, é.R. & Martynova, V.P. Preparation of 6-styrylphenanthridines. Chem Heterocycl Compd 10, 965–969 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00487121
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