The cyclic β-tricarbonyl functionality is an essential structural unit of a great diversity of natural products. Components of extracts from different plants (leptospermone, humulones, hulupones, filicines, etc.), various fungal metabolites and antibiotics (chelocardin, dutomicin, usnic acid), pheromones, and the kairomones of some Lepidoptera species, as well as many others, are cyclic β-triketones [1-3]. Many of these bioactive compounds exhibit a broad spectrum of useful therapeutic properties and are applied in traditional as well as in modern medicine. Synthetic benzoyl triketones based on the leptospermone structure template are currently used as effective agrochemicals (mesotrione, sulcotrione, tembotrione) and therapeutic agents for the treatment of hereditary tyrosinaemia type I disease (nitisinone, also known as NTBC) [4,5]. Moreover, carbo-, as well as heterocyclic β-tricarbonyl compounds, are valuable multifunctional precursors for the synthesis of natural products and biologically active heterocycles [2, 6-8].Among cyclic β-tricarbonyls, the compounds in which the keto function of the cinnamoyl substituent is involved in the β-tricarbonyl fragment are of special interest. Naturally occurring cinnamoyl derivatives of five-(linderone, lucidone [9], coruscanone B [10]) and six-membered cyclic β-dicarbonyl compounds (champanones [11], schefflerichalcone [12], saffloquinosides [13], and others) along with their synthetic congeners [14-17],