a Department of Chemistry, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey b Department of Chemistry, Abant Izzet Baysal University, 14280 Bolu, Turkey c Department of Chemistry, Atatürk University, 25240 Erzurum, Turkey
Abstract:
Homophthalic acid was reacted with thionyl chloride/DMF and ethyl chloroformate/NEt3 in the presence and absence of NaN3. In all cases completely different isocoumarin derivatives were obtained. These unusual isocoumarin derivatives were characterized and their mechanism of formation is discussed.