2-Arylamino-2-imidazolines have an interesting chemistry, 1,2 and are effective pharmacophores in medicinal chemistry. 2-Arylamino-2-imidazolines, particularly 2,6dichlorophenylamino-2-imidazoline (clonidine), have a pronounced, hypotensive action, which is coupled with a sedative action. Moreover, some of these compounds also have a more or less pronounced analgesic action, which, however, because of the simultaneous existence of the hypotensive action and the depressant action on the central nervous system, was considered to be unexploitable. 3 In this study, as the starting material, dimethyl N-aryldithioimidocarbonate (1) was synthesized from carbon disulfide, aromatic amine, and methyl iodide in the presence of concentrated aqueous NaOH. The synthesis of N-(1,3-benzothiazol-2-yl)-N-(4,5-dihydro-1Himidazol-2-yl)amine (2) was carried out by both conventional heating and by microwave irradiation according to cited references. 4 Its piperidine-4-yl methyl derivative (3) was synthesized by treatments with piperidine and formaldehyde.A solution of N-(1,3-benzothiazol-2-yl)-N-(4,5-dihydro-1Himidazol-2-yl)amine (2) (0.01 mol) in methanol (20 mL) was stirred at room temperature for 2 h with aqueous formaldehyde (35%; 0.015 mol) and 0.01 mol piperidine (1 mL, d: 0.86 g cm -3 ). The solvent was removed on a rotary evaporator. The residue was mixed with methanol, and the precipitate formed was filtered and then recrystallized from chloroform (yield 67%, mp 432 K).