“…We considered the utilization of diketene as starting material and reagent because it is extensively used for the generation for a diverse range of different heterocycles. For this purpose, in continuation of our successive attempts towards the synthesis of heterocycles by multicomponent strategies, ( Rezvanian et al, 2018a ; Talaei et al, 2018 ; Rezvanian et al, 2020a ; Rezvanian et al, 2020b ), especially using diketene reactions ( Alizadeh et al, 2012 ; Rezvanian, 2015 ; Rezvanian, 2016 ; Rezvanian et al, 2017 ; Rezvanian et al, 2018b ; Rezvanian et al, 2019 ; Rezvanian et al, 2020c ; Rezvanian et al, 2020d ; Rezvanian et al, 2020e ; Rezvanian et al, 2021a ; Rezvanian et al, 2021b ), we herein explain an efficient approach to synthesize pyrrolo[3,4-c]quinoline-1,3-diones 7 from the reaction of isatin, diketene, and primary amines based on the unique reactivity of pyrazole as a promoter in high yields ( Scheme 3 ).…”