On Disalicylideneacetone and Analogs

PT Mora, T Széki

Index: Mora; Szeki Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1950 , vol. 72, p. 3009,3012

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Abstract

It is well known that o-hydroxy aromatic aldehydes* will condense with acetone and other ketones to form compounds structurally related to the anthocyanidins and to the dicoumarins. It was s~ ggested~ J*~ that the mechanism of the condensation involves, in the case of equimolar proportions of acetone and salicylaldehyde, an unsaturated intermediate, ziz., o-hydroxystyryl methyl ketone. The condensation of salicylaldehyde and various ...