Ac. Spivey et al., A PRACTICAL SYNTHESIS OF N-P-ANISYL-N-METHYL-AMINO-3-(9-ANTHRYL)-PROPANE - AN EXCIPLEX FLUORESCENCE THERMOMETER, Synthetic communications, 28(4), 1998, pp. 623-632
A practical synthesis of N-p-anisyl-N-methyl-amino-3-(9-anthryl)-propa
ne from 9-anthraldehyde is described. All the intermediates in this si
mple five step sequence are crystalline and simple recrystallisation a
fter each step allows the preparation of this exciplex fluorescence 't
hermometer' molecule on a preparative scale without resort to chromato
graphy.