P. Rajakumar et V. Murali, TANDEM ARYNE SEQUENCE ROUTE TO THE SYNTHESIS OF SUBSTITUTED FLUORENONES, Synthetic communications, 25(22), 1995, pp. 3537-3544
Substituted m-terphenyl carboxylic acids of the type 1a-e were prepare
d by the tandem aryne sequence from substituted dihaloiodobenzenes wit
h arylmagnesium bromide followed by quenching with CO2. The carboxylic
acids la-e were converted into fluorenones 2a-e using either H2SO4 in
CH3OH or PPA.