Gas/Solid Reactions of Aliphatic Amines with Thiohydantoins: Atomic Force Microscopy and New Mechanisms

Abstract

Island formation as one mechanism of the phase rebuilding in gas/solid reactions was one of the results of the investigation of the reaction of crystalline thiohydantoins 1a-c with methyl- and dimethylamine by atomic force microscopy. The interesting synthetic building blocks 2 are formed quantitatively and more readily than from alternative ways simply by avoiding solvents.