%0 Journal Article %T Facile rearrangement of push-pull 5-substituted 4-oxothiazolidines induced by pyridinium hydrobromide perbromide under homogeneous reaction conditions %A RADE MARKOVIC %A MARIJA BARANAC %A ZDRAVKO DZAMBASKI %J Journal of the Serbian Chemical Society %D 2004 %I Serbian Chemical Society %X Pyridinium hydrobromide perbromide (PHBP) is a highly efficient reagent for the conversion of 5-substituted-2-alkylidene-4-oxothiazolidine derivatives to the corresponding thiazolidines with two fully delocalized exocyclic double bonds at the C(2) and C(5) positions. This conversion as a two-step bromination-rearrangement process occurs in acetonitrile under homogeneous reaction conditions. %K thiazolidine %K rearrangement %K pyridinium hydrobromide perbromide %K acetonitrile %U http://www.shd.org.yu/HtDocs/SHD/Vol69/No4/V69-No4-01.pdf