Anthracene was first discovered in coal tar by Jean B.A. Dumas and Auguste Laurent in 1832. The importance of anthracene for industrial aromatic chemistry began with the synthesis of the dyestuff alizarin by Carl Graebe and Carl Th. Liebermann, as well as by William H.Perkin in 1868, replacing the natural dye produced from madder. Anthraquinone dyestuffs have remained the most important class of dyes, alongside azo-dyes, since the beginning of the chemistry of synthetic dyestuffs.
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Franck, H.-G., & Stadelhofer, J. W. (1988). Anthracene — production and uses. In Industrial Aromatic Chemistry (pp. 343–361). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73432-8_11
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