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Chemical compound
1"H"-Phenalene, often called simply phenalene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH). Like many PAHs, it is an atmospheric pollutant formed during the combustion of fossil fuels. It is the parent compound for the phosphorus-containing phosphaphenalenes.
The name was proposed by German chemists in 1922 as a contraction of "peri"phenonaphthalene.
Reactions.
Phenalene is deprotonated by potassium methoxide to give the phenalenyl anion.
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