7779such as 2 are expected to be the most sensitive of aromatics to ring current effects, for normal biphenyl-type aromatics interaction between the rings will be more readily observed through UV spectra than nuclear magnetic resonance data.
Experimental Section'H NMR spectra were determined in CDCI, on a Perkin-Elmer R32 (90 MHz) spectrometer and are reported in parts per million downfield from tetramethylsilane as internal standard. UV spectra were determined in cyclohexane on a Cary 17 spectrophotometer. Mass spectra were determined on a Hitachi Perkin-Elmer RMU-7 (high-resolution) or Finnigan 3300 (low-resolution) mass spectrometer at 70 eV. Microanalyses were performed by this department and by Canadian Microanalytical services Ltd. All evaporations were carried out under reduced pressure on a rotary evaporator at ca. 40 OC. Extracts were dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate.Bi(2,Z'-tmns -lob, 10c-dimethyl-lob, l0c-dihydropyrenyl) (2). A solution of n-butyllithium (0.2 mmol in hexane, 0.1 mL) was added under N, to a stirred solution of 2-bromo-~rans-10b,10c-dimethyl-1Ob,10c-dihydropyrene (5)e (50 mg, 0.16 mmol) in dry ether (2 mL) in a flamed flask. After 5 min this solution was added under N2 to a slurry of TlBr (0.08 g, 0.3 mmol) in benzene (2 mL) and ether (2 mL). The mixture was then heated under reflux with stirring for 4 h. It was then cooled, poured into water, and extracted with dichloromethane. The extract was washed, dried, and evaporated and the residue was chromatographed over silica gel. Pentane eluted first the green dimethyldihydropyrene 4, ca. 10 mg, and then the purple bipyrene 2, 13 mg (35% yield), as very dark greenish black crystals from methanol that formed purple solutions; mp ca. 195-199 OC dec; 'H NMR 8 9.46 (s, 4 H, H-1,3), 8.8-8.5 (m, 14 H, other ArH), -3.68 and -3.77 (s, 6 H each, CH,); MS, Mt. at m / e 462 402 (M -4CH3, 55) plus many doubly charged ions; UV A,, (log e,,,) 577 nm (4.20), 544 (sh, 4.13), 480 (sh, 3.80) 436 (3.83), 400 (4.12), 368 (4.72), 345 (4.42), 332 (sh, 4.35). Anal. Calcd for C,,H,,,: C, 93.46; H, 6.54; mol wt., 462.23. Found: C, 92.91; H, 6.06; mol wt, 462.24 (MS). When anhydrous CoC1, (0.8 g) was used as oxidant (reflux, 4 h) from bromide 5 (800 mg), there was obtained bipyrene 2 (1 50 mg, 25% yield), identical with the above sample. trans-10b,10c-Dimethyl-2-phenyl-lOb,lOc-dihydropyrene (3). A solution of phenyllithium (3.2 mmol in hexane 1.8 mL) was added to a (24%), 447 (M -CH,, 38), 432(M -2CH3, 26), 417 (M -3CH3 IOO),stirred slurry of CuBr (0.23 g 1.6 mmol) in dry ether (5 mL) at 0 OC under N,. After 30 min the solution was allowed to warm to ca. 20 OC and a solution of the bromodihydropyrene 58 (100 mg, 3.2 mmol) in dry ether (5 mL) was added. The mixture was kept at ca. 20 OC for 8 days. Nitrobenzene (0.2 mL) was then added and stirring maintained for ca. 15 min, after which the mixture was poured into water and extracted with dichloromethane. The extract was washed, dried, and evaporated, and the residue was chromatographed over silica gel using pentane...