Abstract: | Hydroxymethylation and aminomethylation reactions of 5-arylidene-2-thio-4-oxazolidinones lead to the formation of substitution products at the ring nitrogen atom; this has been attributed to thermodynamic reaction control.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 106–108, January, 1989. |