9,10-Dimethylanthracene is used as an antioxidant-photosensitizer dual-loaded polymeric micelles with controllable production of reactive oxygen species. It is also used as chemical rate constant actinometer in singlet molecular oxygen reactions.
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Applications
9,10-Dimethylanthracene is used as an antioxidant-photosensitizer dual-loaded polymeric micelles with controllable production of reactive oxygen species. It is also used as chemical rate constant actinometer in singlet molecular oxygen reactions.
Solubility
Soluble in toluene. Insoluble in water.
Notes
Incompatible with oxidizing agents.
RUO – Research Use Only
General References:
- Nakashima, E.; Yamamoto, H. Continuous flow of nitroso Diels-Alder reaction. Chem. Commun. 2015, 51 (61), 12309-12312.
- Albiter, E.; Alfaro, S.; Valenzuela, M. A. Photosensitized oxidation of 9,10-dimethylanthracene with singlet oxygen by using a safranin O/silica composite under visible light. Photochem. Photobiol. Sci. 2015, 14 (3), 597-602.