Abstract
Heavy alkali metals (K, Rb, Cs) react with polycondensed aromatic hydrocarbons at relatively low temperatures with evolution of hydrogen. The compounds thus obtained contain alkali metal atoms and, depending on previous experimental conditions, their hydrolysis yields either the original hydrocarbon or a mixture of dimers and ‘polymers’. These results can be interpreted in terms of an initial substitution reaction followed by duplication brought about by heating. High reactivity would seem to be especially associated with the presence of three aromatic rings in the phenanthrene configuration.
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