Mikesell, Logan D.Livinghouse, Tom2023-09-152023-09-152023-08Logan D. Mikesell and Tom Livinghouse The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2023 88 (16), 12064-12068 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c001550022-3263https://scholarworks.montana.edu/handle/1/18105This document is the unedited Author’s version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in The Journal of Organic Chemistry, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.3c00155A rapid and highly practical one-flask procedure for the positionally selective preparation of (acyloxy)methyl N-(2-hydroxybenzyl)iminodiacetate and related diesters from iminodiacetic acid and phenols is described. The key to this multicomponent phenol-Mannich condensation resides in the use of cesium iminodiacetate as the reaction partner. This protocol has been applied in an unusually direct synthesis of the intracellular fluorescent dye Calcein blue AM, for which scant experimental and spectroscopic data are presently available.en-UScopyright American Chemical Society 2023http://web.archive.org/web/20190502075603/http://pubs.acs.org/paragonplus/copyright/jpa_form_a.pdfbase-catalyzedcesium iminodiacetatecalcien blue AMacyloxymethyl estersArticle