ASIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, vol.19, no.3, pp.2403-2409, 2007 (Journal Indexed in SCI)
4-(p-Methylbenzoyl)-5-(p-methylphenyl)furan-2,3-dione (1) reacts with acetanilides (3a-f) under different conditions and gives open-chain dibenzoylacetic acid derivatives 4a,b, 5c-f It has been demonstrated that with the variation in reaction conditions, the reaction changes leading to different products. All the newly synthesized compounds were characterized by elemental analysis, IR, H-1 and C-13 NMR spectral data. All were compared with their previous analogues.