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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Yes! FC acylation/WK reduction was the most convenient/cheapest way to make long-chain 4-dodecylbromobenzene in high purity and scale.

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David Nelson @davidjn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

One of my students is having a fight trying to make something very similar... issues getting the hydrazone to react. Was your prep. published?

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Ah, found it! The key step is where they describe distilling until 210°C — much of the hydrazone decomposition occurs during this phase. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Synthesis and Self‐Assembly of Functionalized Hexa‐peri‐hexabenzocoronenes

Monolayers of hexa-alkyl substituted derivatives of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC) 1 b have previously been investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and scanning tunneling spectroscopy ...

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Dr. Kuglymoogly, Ph.D. @skugelgen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It was a lit. procedure! For us, the key was to use ethylene glycol as the solvent and heat the everloving bejeezus out of it after hydrazone formation. If you’d like, I can track down the reference from my personal Zotero later

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