“…In continuation of our interest in N-aminophthalimide chemistry, with a view directed towards preparing biologically active compounds 33,35 , in the present article, we studied the reaction of 2-(5-substituted 2-oxindolin-3-ylideneamino) isoindolin-1,3-diones (2 a,b ) with different amines. When 2-(5-substituted 2-oxindolin-3-ylideneamino) isoindolin-1,3-diones (2 a,b ) were reacted with benzylamine, they underwent ring cleavage to give N,N′-dibenzylphthalamide (5), as expected (mp, mixed melting point with authentic sample) 33,34 , in addition to 3-hydrazonoindolin-2-ones (8 a,b ) as by-product.…”