“…Similar to the recently published synthesis [31,32], to a magnetically stirred solution of trans-2-benzoyl-3-(4-nitrophenyl)aziridine 1 (0.268 g, 1 mmol) and 5-chloro-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carbaldehyde 3 (0.221 g, 1 mmol) in 7 mL of absolute ethanol was added NH 4 OAc (0.78 g, 10 mmol) at room temperature. The mixture was stirred for 48 h. The reaction mixture was filtered, washed with absolute ethanol, dried under reduced pressure, and the resulting solid was recovered, purified by silica gel column chromatography using ethyl acetate/hexane (1:5, v/v) as the eluent, and recrystallized from absolute ethanol (10 mL) to give the target compound 7a as pale beige colorless solid that changed to the deep orange (7b).…”