• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.175-178
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• 2011

A facile, convenient, efficient and high yielding synthesis of a combinatorial library of coumarins has been developed by the condensation of readily available $\beta$-oxodithioesters and S,S-acetal with 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde in the presence of catalytic amount of $CuCl_2$ under solvent free conditions.