yellow crystals or crystalline powder
9,10-Dimethylanthracene is used as an antioxidant-photosensitizer dual-loaded polymeric micelles with controllable production of reactive oxygen species. It is also used as chemical rate constant actinometer in singlet molecular oxygen reactions.
9,10-Dimethylanthracene belongs to the class of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are generally used as potential starting materials for the synthesis of a variety of industrial chemicals.
This compound caused lungs and skin tumorin mice at the site of application. Carcinogenicity in humans is unknown. It testedpositive in the histidine reversion–Amestest; the mammalian micronucleus test wasinconclusive.
Purify 9,10-dimethylanthracene by crystallising from EtOH, and by recrystallising from the melt. [Beilstein 5 IV 2329.]
