Abstract

A. Thirupathaiah¹*, B. Prasanna¹, M. Ravinder¹, T. Sudhakar¹, J. Bhaskar¹  

The reaction of aromatic aldehydes 1 with 5, 5-dimethyl-1, 3-cyclohexandione 2 was investigated in this paper by using [bmim][BF4] as the reaction medium. It was found that when the reaction was carried out in the presence of catalytic amount of BiCl3, xanthenediones 3 was obtained in high yields.

BiCl3; ionic liquids; xanthenedione

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