A multicomponent reaction (MCR) can create highly complex molecules from readily available starting materials without the complicated purification operations; thus, MCRs are resource and time-effective and economically favorable processes in diversity generation1. A wide variety of quinazolinone derivatives have been synthesized by condensation of 3-amino- 1, 2, 4-triazole as amine sources, with dimedone and aromatic aldehydes in the presence of 20 mol % of MCM-41-SO3H as effective catalyst in green and reusable catalyst in refluxing DMF conditions through one-pot reactions. Triazoloquinazolinone are important because of their wide range of biological activities, application in medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical industry and agrochemicals as herbicides and active pharmaceuticals2.

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