Xianzhang Bu and colleagues at Sun Yat-Sen University in China have ‘unexpectedly’ discovered new fluorescent trans-dihydrofluoren-3-ones from one pot reactions of benzaldehydes and acetylacetone.
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New fluorescent trans-dihydrofluoren-3-ones from aldol–Robinson annulation–regioselective addition involved one-pot reaction
Yingpeng Huo, Xu Qiu, Weiyan Shao, Jianing Huang, Yanjun Yu, Yinglin Zuo, Linkun An, Jun Du and Xianzhang Bu
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2010, 8, 5048-5052
DOI: 10.1039/C0OB00401D