Chemiluminescent solution based on substituted anthracens

• US 5,232,635 A
• Filed: 10/26/1990
• Issued: 08/03/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cyalume Technologies Incorporated (Cyalume Technologies Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: American Colloid Company (Minerals Technologies Incorporated)
• Inventors: Van Moer, Andre, Ladyjensky, Jacques
• Primary Examiner(s): Stoll, Robert L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TUCKER, PHILIP C
• Application Number:
  US07/603,494
• Time in Patent Office: 1,012 Days
• Field of Search: 252/700, 252/587, 252/589, 568/633, 568/634, 570/127, 570/183
• US Class Current: 252/700
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 25/22 with condensed rings
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 2603/24 Anthracenes; Hydrogenated anthracenes
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 43/20 having an ether-oxygen atom bound to a carbon atom of a six-membered aromatic ring
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 43/225 containing halogen
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 43/29 containing halogen
• CPC Class Codes: C09K 11/07 having chemically interreactive components, e.g. reactive chemiluminescent compositions

Abstract

New derivatives of anthracene for the emission of a blue chemiluminescent light are disclosed. The derivatives are of 9,10-bisphenylanthracene substituted at the 2 position of the anthracene ring and on the phenyl groups. The production of turquoise chemiluminescent light is also disclosed by mixing said derivatives with a green 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene.

Claims

1. A compound selected from the group consisting of 9,10-bis(fluorophenyl)-2-fluoroanthracene and 9,10-bis(phenoxyphenyl)-2-chloranthracene.

2. A composition adapted to be reacted with hydrogen peroxide to provide chemiluminescent light, said composition containing a compound of claim 1.

3. A composition according to claim 2 comprising, in addition thereto, a solvent for said compound.

4. A composition according to claim 2 comprising, in addition thereto, an oxalate compound.

5. A composition according to claim 4 wherein said oxalate is a substituted carbalkoxyphenyl oxalate.

6. A composition according to claim 5 wherein said oxalate is bis(2,4,5-trichloro-6-carbopentoxyphenyl) oxalate.

7. A composition according to claim 3 wherein said solvent is dibutylphthalate.

8. A method of producing chemiluminescent light which comprises adding to the composition of claim 4, a solution of hydrogen peroxide.