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Total Hydrolysis of a New Imidazolidine Induced by ZnII
Published:
31 October 2014
by MDPI
in The 18th International Electronic Conference on Synthetic Organic Chemistry
session General Organic Synthesis
Abstract: 2,2´-(2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)imidazolidin-1,3-diyl)diethanol(H3L) was obtained by condensation between 2-hydroxybenzaldehyde and N,N'-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)ethylenediamine. Its potential ability as NNOOO donor towards ZnII was tested. This study shows that zinc(II) mediates the fast hydrolysis of H3L, yielding the free aldehyde and amine. This latter was crystallographically characterised, showing a supramolecular 1D architecture based on hydrogen bond interactions.
Keywords: Imidazolidine; hydrolysis; zinc; 1D ladder