Yanjun Xie, Xiufang Cheng, Saiwen Liu
2015
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Green Chemistry
Abstract
An efficient procedure for 4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-5-one preparation from aryl amidines and ketones under transition-metal free conditions is described. When cyclic ketones were employed, various spiro-fused 4,5-dihydro-1H-imidazol-5-ones were formed in high yields via rearrangement reaction.