{"title":"Significant advances in catalytic strategies for the synthesis of trisubstituted imidazoles: a review","authors":"Saloni Mangal (Writing – original draft) , Salahuddin (Methodology Writing – review & editing) , Avijit Mazumder (Supervision) , Rajnish Kumar (Validation Visualization) , Sapna Rani (Data curation) , Mohamed Jawed Ahsan (Investigation) , Mohammad Shahar Yar (Conceptualization Formal analysis)","doi":"10.1080/00397911.2025.2505901","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The catalyst plays an important role while the organic transformations are taking place. They enhance the reaction process by reducing the reaction time and provide highly efficient yields. Imidazole is one of the most common heterocyclic rings with several pharmaceutical and other significances. Trisubstituted imidazoles have various scientific and biological applications among the different types of imidazole rings. This review compiles the list of catalysts used in the synthesis of trisubstituted imidazoles using benzil, aldehydes and ammonium sources like ammonium acetate or urea. Hence, the study evaluates the efficiency of different catalytic systems in promoting the above-mentioned multicomponent reaction, leading to enhanced yields and reduced reaction times.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":22119,"journal":{"name":"Synthetic Communications","volume":"55 17","pages":"Pages 1281-1305"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Synthetic Communications","FirstCategoryId":"92","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S0039791125000517","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The catalyst plays an important role while the organic transformations are taking place. They enhance the reaction process by reducing the reaction time and provide highly efficient yields. Imidazole is one of the most common heterocyclic rings with several pharmaceutical and other significances. Trisubstituted imidazoles have various scientific and biological applications among the different types of imidazole rings. This review compiles the list of catalysts used in the synthesis of trisubstituted imidazoles using benzil, aldehydes and ammonium sources like ammonium acetate or urea. Hence, the study evaluates the efficiency of different catalytic systems in promoting the above-mentioned multicomponent reaction, leading to enhanced yields and reduced reaction times.
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Synthetic Communications presents communications describing new methods, reagents, and other synthetic work pertaining to organic chemistry with sufficient experimental detail to permit reported reactions to be repeated by a chemist reasonably skilled in the art. In addition, the Journal features short, focused review articles discussing topics within its remit of synthetic organic chemistry.