The financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21072172) and the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 2010-Z4090225) is gratefully acknowledged.
A novel one-pot protocol for the synthesis of valuable 3,4-dihydropyridin-2-ones from the condensation of al- dehyde with cyanoacetamide and 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds in the presence of imidazole was developed. A serie...