Preparation and covalent hydration of 4H-imidazole derivatives

2,4,4-Trimethyl-5-phenyl-4H-imidazole, 4H-imidazole 3-oxide, and 4H-imidazole 1,3-dioxide were synthesized from 1-hydroxy-2,5,5-trimethyl-4-phenyl-3-imidazoline and 3-imidazoline 3-oxide, The action of hydrogen chloride on these compounds and on 2,4,4-trimethyl-5-phenyl-4H-imidazole 1-oxide gives products of the addition of water or alcohol — derivatives of 4-hydroxy-2-imidazolinium chlorides.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 9, pp. 1246–1251, September, 1972.