• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.604-608
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• 2008

A series of N-alkenyl pyrrolidine-2-thiones were synthesized by the reaction between pyrrolidine-2-thione and various aldehydes such as n-propanal, isopropanal, n-butanal, n-hexanal, n-octanal and phenylacetaldehyde in 32-86% yields using microwave irradiation technique. Only one structural E isomers were predominantly formed within 15 minutes in chlorobenezene?/p-toluenesulfonic acid monohydrate.