Owing to the utmost importance of anthracene based phosphonates in multiple branches of science, we offer a direct, metal‐free and operationally‐simple protocol to access a new family of anthracenylphosphonates, i. e., diethyl ((10‐arylanthracen‐9‐yl)methyl)phosphonates by Friedel‐Crafts (FC) type arylation reactions of easily accessible corresponding α‐hydroxyphosphonate with arenes (1.2 equiv only) in the presence of inexpensive acid. The scope has been extended with both activated and unactivated arenes including haloanisoles, heteroarenes and biphenyl at room temperature. Unexpectedly, under identical reaction conditions, pyrene afforded the α‐pyrene substituted anthracenylphosphonates. Furthermore, these anthracenyl along with recently reported naphthyl phosphonates were screened for their activities against murine melanoma cell lines (skin cancer). Initial studies exhibited promising results with the IC50 values in the range of 9.46‐96 μm for anthracenylphosphonates and 15–38 μm for naphthylphosphonates.