“…Thus, treatment of thiosemicarbazone 1 (Auhmani et al, 1999(Auhmani et al, , 2002Ourhriss et al, 2005) or thiosemicarbazone 2 with an equivalent of ethyl 2-bromoacetate in the presence of sodium acetate afforded the nonsubstituted thiazolidinones (Z)-2-{(Z)-[(1aR,5aR,9aS)-1,1-dichloro-1a,5,5,7-tetramethyl-1a,2,3,4,5,5a,8,9-octahydro-1H-benzo[a]cyclopropa[b][7]annulen-8-ylidene]hydrazono}thiazolidin-4-one, 3, and (Z)-2-{(Z)-[(1aR,5aR,9aS)-1,1-dibromo-1a,5,5,7-tetramethyl-1a,2,3,4,5,5a,-8,9-octahydro-1H-benzo[a]cyclopropa[b][7]annulen-8-ylidene]-hydrazono}thiazolidin-4-one, 4. They were purified by flash chromatography with hexane as eluent and isolated as yellow liquids.…”