Erbium Triflate Promoted Multicomponent Synthesis of Highly Substituted Imidazoles
Kandasamy Rajaguru, Rajendran Suresh, Arumugam Mariappan, Shanmugam Muthusubramanian* and Nattamai Bhuvanesh
*Department of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry,
Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai 625 021, India, Email: muthumanian2001
yahoo.com
K. Rajaguru, R. Suresh, A. Mariappan, S. Muthusubramanian, N. Bhuvanesh, Org. Lett., 2014, 16, 744-747.
DOI: 10.1021/ol403456b
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Abstract
A multicomponent protocol enables the synthesis of highly substituted imidazole derivatives in excellent yield from various α-azido chalcones, aryl aldehydes, and anilines in the presence of erbium triflate as a catalyst.
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Key Words
imidazoles, multicomponent reactions
ID: J54-Y2014
