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Anthracene-9-carbonitrile was used to study the mechanism of charge separation within phenothiazine (PTZH) or phenoxazine (PXZH), and 9-cyanoanthracene(electron acceptor). Also it has been used to study the fluorescence excitation spectra of this compound .

Crystallise the nitrile from EtOH or toluene, and sublime it in a vacuum in the dark under N2 [Ebied et al. J Chem Soc, Faraday Trans 1 76 2170 1980, Kikuchi et al. J Phys Chem 91 574 1987]. [Beilstein 9 I 304.]