Zj. Zhao et H. Hartmann, Synthesis of reactive condensation products of acetylacetone and their transformation into deeply coloured methine dyes, J PRAK CH C, 342(3), 2000, pp. 249-255
Starting from acetylacetone 1, boric acid and a diol, or a 2-aminothiazole
16 and perchloric acid several dimethyl-substituted 1,3,2-dioxaborines 5 an
d thiazolo[3,2a]-pyrimidinium salts 17, resp., have been prepared and trans
formed by raction with 4-N,N-dimethylamino-benzaldehyde 3a or 3-methyl-2-me
thylmercapto-benzthiazolium perchlorate 13 into deeply colored polymethine
dyes 11, 12, 14, 15, and 18-21, and 23-24 their spectroscopic data were rec
orded.