Health & Environmental Research Online (HERO)


Print Feedback Export to File
8390636 
Journal Article 
The chemistry of 1,3,5-hexatriene 
Woods, GF; Bolgiano, NC; Duggan, DE 
1955 
Yes 
Journal of the American Chemical Society
ISSN: 0002-7863
EISSN: 1520-5126 
77 
7 
1800-1803 
English 
1,3,5-Hexatriene has been obtained by the catalytic dehydration of 2,4-hexadien-1-ol which was prepared by reduction of 2,4-hexadienal with lithium aluminum hydride. Nitrohexatriene was prepared by the nitration of hexatriene. 1,2,3-Benzenetricarboxylic acid was readily synthesized from the Diels-Alder adduct of maleic anhydride and hexatriene. When 1-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene was passed over alumina at 350°, it underwent cyclization to yield a phenylcyclohexadiene. This type of cyclization occurs with [formula omitted] which yielded phenanthrene after dehydrogenation; in like manner 2,4-hexadienal and sorbic acid yielded benzene and phenol, respectively. © 1955, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.