Olyaei A, Sadeghpour M. Recent advances in the synthesis of highly substituted imidazolidines.
RSC Adv 2024;
14:30758-30806. [PMID:
39328874 PMCID:
PMC11426194 DOI:
10.1039/d4ra06010e]
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Abstract
Imidazolidine is a saturated heterocycle with a cyclic aminal core that can be found in natural products and biologically active molecules. Additionally, these heterocyclic compounds have been utilized as chiral ligands, N-heterocyclic carbene precursors, and catalysts in organic synthesis. This review is an attempt to compile the literature of various synthetic procedures of highly substituted imidazolidines, chiral imidazolidines with high diastereoselectivities and enantioselectivities, bis-imidazolidines, and spiro-imidazolidines, as well as their pharmacological properties during the period from 1949 to 2023.
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