Mild and efficient one-pot synthesis of 2-imidazolines from nitriles using sodium hydrosulfide as catalyst

Synthetic Communications

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 3151-3158

  Sun, Min ^a   Wei, Hong Tao ^a   Li, Dong ^a   Zheng, You Guang ^a,b,c   Cai, Jin ^a,b,c   Ji, Min ^a,b,c  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory of Organic Synthesis of Jiangsu Province   (China)

^c Suzhou Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

2 imidazoline; Nitrile; Sodium hydrosulfide

Indexed keywords

2 (2 CHLOROPHENYL)IMIDAZOLINE; 2 (2 THIENYL)IMIDAZOLINE; 2 (3 CHLOROPHENYL)IMIDAZOLINE; 2 (3 PYRIDYL)IMIDAZOLINE; 2 (4 CHLOROPHENYL)IMIDAZOLINE; 2 (4 HYDROXYPHENYL)IMIDAZOLINE; 2 (4 METHOXYPHENYL)IMIDAZOLINE; 2 (4 METHYLPHENYL)IMIDAZOLINE; 2 (4 TRIFLUOROMETHYLPHENYL)IMIDAZOLINE; 2 IMIDAZOLINE DERIVATIVE; 2 PHENYLIMIDAZOLINE; ETHYLENEDIAMINE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITRILE; SODIUM HYDROSULFIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ONE POT SYNTHESIS; REACTION ANALYSIS;

EID: 51649104935     PISSN: 00397911     EISSN: 15322432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910802109232     Document Type: Article

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