Hey! Finally was able to isolate the dimethly ether of gallacetophenone. Here is what the TLC looked like
Apparently the reactant (right in the tlc) has converted almost completely to the product. The reaction conditions were as follows :
3.36 gm of gallacetophenone(0.02 moles) and 15.8 gm (0.1 mole) was added in 100 ml acetone and refluxed for 20 mins. The reaction mixture was cooled to room temperature. To this, 2.52 grams(0.02 moles) of dimethyl suflate was added and stirred for 3 hours. The reaction did not seem to progress. So the reaction was heated for about 1 hour at reflux. The reaction flask was kept under free stirring for 48 hours and the TLC shown above was taken. Apparently the reaction had proceeded. The spot with the reactant is almost gone. There is a faint spot of the mono methyl ether just below the main dark spot. The trimethyl ether is seen distinctly above the monomethly ether.
Workup : The acetone was distilled off to leave only 10 % of the solution. To this about 50 ml toluene was added and the reaction mixture was washed with almost 100 ml (25ml x 4) of 20% NaOH. This was done so that only the mono and di methly ethers would remain in the solution. These were then to be separated by column chromatography. Hope you guys find it useful 
