Triphenylstibine oxide, Ph3SbO, could catalyze the direct carbonylation of diamines (1, H2N-(CH2)"NHR; where n, R = 2, CH3, a; 3, CH3, b; 2, CH2CH2OH, c; 2, CH2CH(CH3)OH, d; 3, CH2-CH(CH3)OH, e), affording cyclic ureas of fiveor six-membered ring in cooperation with molecular sieves 3A. Thus, la-e were converted into the corresponding cyclic ureas in 85-98% yields at 150-160 °C without any polymeric byproduct. Cyclocondensation occurred at amino alcoholic portions in the reactions of N-(hydroxypropyl)tetramethylene-and N-(hydroxypropyl)hexamethylenediamines (If and lg), and iV-(aminoalkyl)-substituted oxazolidinones were obtained.Cyclic urea derivatives (2-imidazolidinones and tetrahydro-2(1 H)-pyrimidinones), especially N-alkylor N-(hydroxyalkyl)-substituted ones, are useful materials as intermediates for the syntheses of medicines (Ebetino, 1966;Snyder, 1974; Sherlock, 1983) and resins (Walles and