Isolation and characterisation of 2-Tert-butyl-8-hydroxyquinoline as a crystalline solid and its blue fluorescent Li complex

2-Tert-butyl-8-hydroxyquinoline (2-TB-8-hq) has been isolated as a crystalline solid and its X-ray structure elucidated, resolving three decades of controversy, since it was previously wrongly reported as yellow oil by some other workers. An improved synthetic method has been developed which increas...

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Main Authors: Kathirgamanathan, Poopathy, Surendrakumar, Sivagnanasundram, Ravichandran, Seenivasagam, Blake, Alexander J.
Format: Article
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3050/