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(57) [Summary] [Object] To provide a method for producing a compound used as a yellow coupler or a synthetic intermediate thereof in a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material under mild conditions without using a highly toxic compound. [Structure] General formula (I) (Wherein R 1 represents an aryl group and R 2 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group or an aryl group) and a compound represented by the general formula (II): (In the formula, R 3 represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, a cyclic ether group, an aryl group or the like, which is bonded at a secondary or tertiary carbon atom, and Y represents a hydrogen atom or an electron-withdrawing group.) React in the presence of a base, A method for producing a compound represented by the general formula (IV). Embedded image (In the formula, R 2 , R 3 and Y have the same meanings as in general formula (I) and general formula (II), respectively.) |