“…The products 16b-17b were identified using 1 H and 13 C NMR spectra of enriched fractions, and 18b from the 1 H NMR spectra of the crude mixture. When furan-2-carboxaldehyde (11) (Entries 7-9) and thiophene-2-carboxaldehyde (12) (Entries [10][11][12] were similarly involved in the reactions with 2,2-dicyano-3-(4-substituted)phenyloxiranes 1a-c, 10 rather similar a:b ratios were obtained, that is to say 66/34 (19, Reactions were finally carried out between 2,2-dicyano-3-(4-substituted)phenyloxiranes 1a-d 10 and imines 25 15 (1 molar equivalent) in order to get substituted 2,4-diphenyloxazolidine-5,5-dicarbonitriles (Table 3). The conversion to the derivatives 26-28 using N-(phenylmethylene)methanamine (25a), 30-32 using N- (1,3-benzodioxol-5-ylmethylene)propylamine (25b), 34-36 using N- (1,3-benzodioxol-5-ylmethylene)butylamine (25c), and 38-40 using N- (1,3-benzodioxol-5-ylmethylene) (18-40%).…”