Study on the Reactivity of Diarylmethane Derivatives in Supercritical Alcohols Media: Reduction of Diarylmethanols and Diaryl Ketones to Diarylmethanes Using Supercritical 2-Propanol

Abstract

We found that diarylmethanols and diaryl ketones were smoothly reduced to the corresponding diarylalkanes using supercritical 2-propanol in good yields. Furthermore, we determined the specific reaction of fluorene using supercritical methanol at high temperature.