“…Other significant techniques for producing β-amino ketones include multicomponent Mannich reaction of ketones, aldehyde, and amines [21]. Usually, the general methods for the preparation of β-amino ketones involve cyclohexanone, substituted aromatic aldehydes, and substituted aromatic amines in one pot, multicomponent reactions include using 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium ionic liquids (ILs) with different acidic anions as solvents [22], organobismuth complex [23], aqueous HBF 4 [24], H 3 PW 12 O 40 [25], Bronsted [26], Lewis acids [27], Lewis bases [28], o-benzenedisulfonimide [29], Silica supported perchloric acid (HClO 4 -SiO 2 ) [30], NaBAr 4 F [31], bisphosphorylimides [32], ZrOCl 2 Á8H 2 O [21], acetic acid [33], p-dodecyl benzenesulfonic acid [34], Bi(OTf) 3 [24], heteropoly acid [35,36], lipase [37], proline [38,39], NbCl 5 [40], polyelectrolyte Bronsted acid catalysts in the water medium [41], tetra nitrile silver complex [42], SO 4 2À /TiO 2 [43], camphor sulfonate based PILS [44], Bu 2 Sn(OMe) 2 [45], acid-ILs polymer in ACN solvents (Scheme 1) [46]. Unfortunately, the majority of these methods still have some drawbacks, including longer reaction times, harsher reaction conditions, the use of metal-supported catalysts, IL with the other metal cocatalysts, the use of toxic solvents, corrosive waste products and lengthy separation, repetitive work, chromatographic separation purification, and issues with recovering and reusing catalysts [47][48][49][50][51].…”