Naphthalene is a hydrocarbon produced by the distillation of coal tar and is an aromatic white crystalline substance. Naphthalene is the most abundant component in coal tar. It is used as an insect repellant and insect fumigant. The compound is used in the manufacture of celluloid, dyes, hydrogenated naphthalenes, oil fumes, smokeless powders and synthetic resins.
Dibenzofuran is an organic compound (C12H8O) consisting of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring. Dibenzofuran can be synthesized by annealing and oxidative coupling methods of diphenyl ether, biphenyl derivatives, benzofuran, quinone. Most of the dibenzofuran-related natural products are metabolites of lichens or higher fungi. Lichen dibenzofurans appear to be formed by carbon-carbon oxidative coupling of orsellinic acid and its homologs.