“…Our preliminary results (Wang and Liu, 1995, 1996a,b, 1998a,b,c, 2005a,b, 2006a,b, 2007Lam, 2004, 2006;Wang and Hsu, 2006; indicate that the synthesis of MBI from the reaction of o-phenylene diamine and carbon disulfide can be carried out in the presence of quaternary ammonium hydroxide or tertiary amine. No catalytic effect was observed when using tetrabutylammonium bromide (TBAB) as the catalyst.…”