Functionalization of anthracene by strategic utilization of the Diels-Alder reaction and the ring-closing metathesis

Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400 076, India E-mail: srk@chem.iitb.ac.in Fax: 91-22-2572-3480, 2576-7152 Manuscript received 05 August 2013, accepted 07 August 2013 Herein, we present a new strategy based on the Diels-Alder (DA) reaction and ring-closing metathesis (RCM) sequence to generate the 9,10-bridged anthracene derivative such as 6