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1-Methyl-2-(2-furyl)imidazole has been synthesized. Electrophilic attack (bromination, nitration, formylation, acylation, and hydroxymethylation) occurs in most cases at the free α-position of the furan ring.
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Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 10, pp. 1396–1400, October, 1989.
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Stoyanov, V.M., El'chaninov, M.M., Simonov, A.M. et al. 2-Substituted imidazoles. 1. Reactions of 1-methyl-2-(2-furyl)imidazole with electrophiles. Chem Heterocycl Compd 25, 1168–1172 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00470698
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