“…[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27] In recent decades, multicomponent reactions as an efficient synthetic method have attracted considerable attention, because complex products are formed in a one-pot reaction and diversity can be simply attained from relatively simple starting materials. Recently, one-pot multicomponent reactions of aromatic aldehydes, ethyl acetoacetate [28][29][30][31][32] or dimethyl but-2-ynedioate, 33,34 and phenylhydrazine/hydrazine hydrate also were used to form 4,4′-(arylmethylene)-bis(1Hpyrazol-5-ol) derivatives in the presence of various catalysts or promoters. To the best of our knowledge, no example using a four-component reaction of phenylhydrazine, dialkyl but-2-ynedioates, substituted benzaldehydes and basic potassium sources to directly construct the 4,4′-(arylmethylene)bis(1Hpyrazol-5-ol) potassium salts have been reported.…”