A convenient novel one-pot two-step strategy and its substrate scope for the synthesis
of 1,3-thiazole heterocycles via organocatalytic epoxidation of nitroolefins with
the TBHP/DBU system, and subsequent reaction of α-nitroepoxides with thioamides is
reported.
Key words
thiazole - epoxidation - DBU - one-pot reaction - organocatalysis