Abstract: | It is shown that, together with -quinindane-9-carboxylic acid, the condensation of isatin with cyclopentanone in alkaline medium (Pfitzinger reaction) also affords , ![agr](/content/j3326p23037062pg/xxlarge945.gif) -dicyclopentylidenecyclopentanone and 3-cyclopentylidene- -quinindane-9-carboxylic acid, the structure of which was confirmed by its NMR, IR, and UV spectra. |