Abstract
We report here a synthesis of a new rhodacyanines 7X analogous to MKT‐077 with quantitative yield using as starting material the thiazolinethione 1. Merocyanines 4 and their tosylates 5 have been prepared as intermediates for this class of compounds. The reactions leading to rhodacyanine 7X have been studied under microwave irradiation.
Acknowledgment
We are grateful to the Accord Programme de Cooperation Mixte Inter Universitaire Algero‐Français No. 3 MDU 574. We thank Pierre Guenot, CRMPO, and his group for mass spectrometry and elementary analyses.