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Phenalene

1H-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 periphenonaphthalene.

It has been discovered in interstellar space in the Taurus Molecular cloud (TMC-1) as part of the QUIJOTE survey.

Phenalene is deprotonated by potassium methoxide to give the phenalenyl anion.

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