Abstract: In a mounting, arrangement for an internal combustion engine with at least one row of cylinders arranged in a longitudinal direction of a four-wheel drive or a front-wheel drive automotive vehicle, which employs a front-wheel drive shaft and a front differential connected to the front-wheel drive shaft, the front-wheel drive shaft and the front differential are both arranged at the side of the engine in the vicinity of the front end of the engine block, and engine mounts for mounting the engine, are arranged rearwardly of the front-wheel drive shaft, so as to assure a shorter entire length and a shorter entire width of the power plant and to provide an optimal car weight balance between front and rear wheels.

Abstract: There is a process for producing 2-oxo-3-aromatic carboxylic acid derivatives which comprises reacting aromatic pyruvic acid derivatives with electrophilic compounds in the presence of bases in a protic solvent. According to this process, 2-oxo-3-aromatic carboxylic acid derivatives which can be easily converted to aromatic amino acid derivatives or 2-aromatic carboxylic acid derivatives as important synthetic intermediates of medicines and agricultural chemicals can be produced in good yields with high selectivity.