The esters of trans-9-hydroxy-10-phenylthio-or -10-chloro-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene are smoothly reduced under neutral conditions by tri-n-butylstannane to furnish, by radical elimination, phenanthrene and the nor-hydrocarbon formed from decomposition of the corresponding acyloxy radical.
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BARTON et al. (1980) studied this question.