A. Guirado et al., ELECTROCHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND X-RAY MOLECULAR-STRUCTURE OF 3,4,5-TRIARYL-2-ARYLIMINOOXAZOLINES, Tetrahedron, 51(37), 1995, pp. 10375-10384
Selective cathodic reduction of benzilmonoimines in aprotic medium at
a mercury pool cathode, under constant potential, in the presence of e
quimolecular amounts of N-arylcarbonimidoyl dichlorides, provides a ne
w and very convenient method for the synthesis of 3,4,5-triaryl-2-aryl
iminooxazolines. Geometrical characteristics of this little known clas
s of heterocycle were determined by X-ray crystallography of henylimin
o)-5-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4-phenyloxazoline.