“…In addition, these compounds show good promise as new luminescence materials and fluorescence probes [12]. There are several methods to synthesize phthalazine derivatives, including the reaction of phthalhydrazide, aldehydes and dimedone or cyclohexane-1,3-dione catalyzed by p-TSA [13], H 2 SO 4 [14], H 4 SiW 12 O 40 [15], H 3 PW 12 O 40 [16], silica sulfuric acid [17], silicasupported polyphosphoric acid [18], TMSCl [19], phosphomolybdic acid (PMA)-SiO 2 [20], N,N,N ,Ntetrabromobenzene-1,3-disulfonamide and poly(Nbromo-N-ethylbenzene-1,3-disulfonamide) [21]. Most recently a one-pot four-component reaction for the synthesis of phthalazine derivatives was reported using Ce(SO 4 ) 2 · 4H 2 O [22] as catalyst.…”