“…Some of the active hydrogen materials which have been added to N-benzylideneanilines are: acetoacetic esters and benzoylacetic esters (235), diethyl malonate (174, 235, 278), methyl ethyl ketone (the methyl group adds rather than the methylene) (174), 2methylbenzopyrrole (active hydrogen is in the 3-position) (203), benzopyrrole (adds in the 3-position) (202), antipyrine (204), -cyanoethyl acetate, ethylmalonamide, malonamide (161), methyl ketones with boron trifluoride etherate in equimolar amounts (methylene ketones do not react under these conditions) (248), Kojic acid (adds in the 6-position) ( 14), 2-methylquinoline methyl iodide (139), methyl nitrite, diethylamine favors the addition of ethyl and propyl nitrites (163), isopropyl nitrite fails to react (125), benzyl nitrite adds very easily in the presence of diethylamine (63), -nitroethyl acetate (65), 8-hydroxy quinoline (adds in the 7-position) (210), -phenylethyl acetate with an aluminum chloride catalyst (155), benzyl sodium sulfonate with phenyllithium (172), acetophenone with an amine hydrochloride catalyst (149), the sodium salt of phenylacetic acid in sodamide (253), the ethyl ester of phenylacetic acid (155), acetic anhydride (mono product) (4), a-and /3-naphthol (22), nitroacetonitrile (230), ethylnitroacetic acid (65, 66) and -nitroacetophenone (69). N-Benzylidene-o-carboxyaniline exists as an equilibrium of the imine and the cyclic addition product (249).…”