“…To suppress these drawbacks, the search of a new and efficient catalyst with high catalytic activity, short reaction time, recyclability, and simple reaction condition for the preparation of xanthenes under neutral mild and practical conditions is of key interest. An improvement in reaction procedure is made by reacting 2-naphthol with alkyl/aryl aldehydes employing various catalysts such as Bronsted acids, [25][26][27] solid supported reagent, [28,29] Metal salt, [30,31] Metal triflate, [32] I2 , [33] Phosphosulfonic acid, [34] trichloroisocyanuric acid, (TCCA), [35] Vanadatesulfuric acid, [36] HBF4-SiO2. [37] However, some these methods are suffer from one or more shortcomings like expensive and toxic catalyst, acidic condition, long reaction time, low yield, preparation of catalyst require in some cases, use of heavy and toxic metal.…”