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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 12.
Published in final edited form as: Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2018 Feb 6;57(12):3012–3021. doi: 10.1002/anie.201709916

Scheme 2.

Scheme 2

Ruthenium(0) catalyzed diol-diene benzannulation to form substituted fluoranthenes.a

aYields are of material isolated by silica gel chromatography. dppp = bis-(diphenylphosphino)propane. dppPh = bis-(1,2-diphenylphosphino)benzene. b120 °C. cdppPh, 3,5-Me2BzOH was omitted.