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Napthalene / Benzene?

YT2095
in Organic Chemistry

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Looking at the geography of napthalene, it looks like 2 benzene rings with a commonality, is there a way to cleave these appart and fill in the missing bond to make 2 benzene from one napathalene or 1 benzene and say a Hexane type?

I know of no method with the mechanism you suggest. However, napthalene can be oxidized to phthalic acid with KMnO4. Then, with NaOH or lime you can decarboxylate the phthalic acid to benzoic acid, and finally to benzene. Sure sounds like a pain to me...but it should be possible.

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