Two 4-silyl-3-buten-2-ones, 2a and 2c, underwent an interesting rearrangement involving migration of the allyl or phenyl group on the silicon atom to the adjacent enone carbon when treated with various bases.

Quinazolinone derivatives are nowadays well recognized as valuable scaffold in drug discovery. In this manuscript an improved multicomponent process for the chemical synthesis of 2,3-dihydroquinazolin-4(1H)-one derivatives is described. Isatoic anhydride and aromatic aldehydes with ammonium acetate have been subjected to a three-component reaction under solvent-free conditions and catalysis of ...