Abstract: | ![]() Novel reactions of isocyanates with compounds containing active methylene groups in the presence of triethylamine are described. The reactions afford derivatives of pyrrolidine-2,3,5-trione and barbituric acid. Published in Russian in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 5, pp. 844–849, May, 2006. |