Tetrahedron Letters

A novel route to synthesis of flavones from salicylaldehyde and acetophenone derivatives

KV Sashidhara, M Kumar, A Kumar

Index: Sashidhara, Koneni V.; Kumar, Manoj; Kumar, Abdhesh Tetrahedron Letters, 2012 , vol. 53, # 18 p. 2355 - 2359

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Abstract

Convenient, facile, and alternate synthesis of medicinally important flavones is reported. The 2-hydroxychalcones derived from condensation between acetophenones and salicylaldehyde, underwent oxidative cyclization on heating in the presence of catalytic iodine, generating diversified flavones under solvent-free conditions. Eleven compounds have been synthesized in good to excellent yields and their mechanism of formation is ...