%0 Journal Article %A Arumugam, Natarajan %A Almansour, Abdulrahman %A Kumar, Raju %A Menéndez Ramos, José Carlos %A Sultan, Mujeeb %A Karama, Usama %A Ghabbour, Hazem %A Fun, Hoong-Kun %T An Expedient Regio- and Diastereoselective Synthesis of Hybrid Frameworks with Embedded Spiro[9,10]dihydroanthracene [9,3′]-pyrrolidine and Spiro[oxindole-3,2′-pyrrolidine] Motifs via an Ionic Liquid-Mediated Multicomponent Reaction %D 2015 %@ 1420-3049 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23898 %X A series of hitherto unreported anthracene-embedded dispirooxindoles has been synthesized via a one-pot three-component 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of an azomethine ylide, generated in situ from the reaction of isatin and sarcosine to 10-benzylideneanthracen9(10H)-one as a dipolarophile in 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide([bmim]Br), an ionic liquid. This reaction proceeded regio- and diastereoselectively, in good to excellent yields. %~