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Nucleophilic alkylation and ring transformation in 4-nitroimidazoles

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Novel imidazole-oxadiazole ring transformation and oxidative nucleophilic substitution of hydrogen in 4-nitroimidazoles following attack by carbanions are described with suggestions concerning the mechanisms of the reactions.

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Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology, Silesian Technical University, Krzywoustego 4, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland. Published in Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 6, pp. 762–767, June, 1998.

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Suwiński, J., Świerczek, K. Nucleophilic alkylation and ring transformation in 4-nitroimidazoles. Chem Heterocycl Compd 34, 663–668 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02252272

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