Download full text in PDF Opens in a new window. Article suggestions will be shown in a dialog on return to ScienceDirect. ... Please enable JavaScript to use all the features on this page. ... Reactions of aryl and hetero vicinal tricarbonyl derivatives with aldehyde Schiff bases of the general structure RCH 2 CHO lead to pyrrolinone derivatives by benzilic acid-related rearrangements, driven, most probably, by iminium ion intermediates.