见光色变深。容易升华。溶于乙醇和乙醚，1g溶于67ml无水乙醇、70ml甲醇、62ml苯、85ml氯仿、200ml乙醚、31ml二硫化碳、86ml四氯化碳、125ml甲苯，不溶于水。有刺激性。 蒽 (Anthracene) 是一种多环芳烃，由于其大小、形状和光物理属性，是超分子化学中的一个重要组分。Huckel 芳香族化合物的闭壳层结构、荧光属性、高分辨的吸收和发射谱带、高荧光量子产率和纳秒寿命使其成为理想的有机荧光团。用以检定茚。制造蒽醌及茜素染料，也用作杀虫剂、杀菌剂、汽油阻凝剂等。 蒽已被证明可溶于各种环己酮、乙酸乙酯和甲醇的二元和三元混合物中。 Anthracene derivatives are useful in preparing stable blue-emitting organic electroluminescence devices. It is oxidized to anthracene cis-1,2-dihydrodiol by Mycobacterium sp. strain PYR-12. It forms bis-adducts by -cycloaddition reaction with -fullerene C60. Anthracene has been shown to be soluble in a variety of binary and ternary mixtures of cyclohexanone, ethyl acetate, and methanol.Anthracene was used to study the photodimerization reaction of anthracene in supercritical CO2.