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Coumarins have been prepared from ethyl-β-resorcylate and resacetophenone by condensing them with cylic β-ketonic esters like ethyl cyclohexanone-2-carboxylate, ethyl cyclo-pentanone-2-carboxylate and ethyl-4-methyl-cyclopentanone-2-carboxylate in presence of 73 per cent. sulphurie acid, phosphorous oxychloride and anhydrous aluminium chloride as condensing agents. Only 7-hydroxy coumarins were obtained in the case of methyl β-resorcylate, while resacetophenone gave 7-hydroxy-coumarins in presence of phosphorous oxychloride, but 5-hydroxy coumarins with aluminium chloride.
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Desai, R.D., Gaitonde, M.M., Mehdi Hasan, S. et al. Heterocyclic compounds. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Math. Sci.) 25, 345 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03170766
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