The enol form of ethyl acetoacetate (EAA) displays interesting spectroscopic characteristics; this form of ethyl acetylacetate is very important in condensation reaction. In this investigation, we have studied the interactions and the complex formation constants (Kf) with nano alumina (10–20？nm) particle and alumina (mesh 135) compounds as Lewis acids in the acetonitrile solvent using absorption spectroscopy and related calculations. Furthermore, in this study we calculated the thermodynamic parameters of this reaction. The trend of reactivity of the ethyl acetoacetate (EAA) complexes toward the above Lewis acids, based on the solvent as follows: nano alumina compound>alumina compound.
