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Formamidine Acetate (FA) is used as a condensing agent for the synthesis of pyrimidine[1] and imidazole[2] heterocycles.

Formamidine Acetate is nonhygroscopic and is stable on storage.

1. Review: Albert, A. In Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry; Academic: New York, 1982; Vol. 32, pp 1-81 and references therein.
2. (a) Taylor, E. C.; Ehrhart, W. A. JACS 1960, 82, 3138. (b) Itoh, T.; Kitano, S.; Mizuno, Y. JHC 1972, 9, 465. (c) Cristalli, G.; Franchetti, P.; Grifantini, M.; Vittori, S.; Lupidi, G.; Riva, F.; Bordoni, T.; Geroni, C.; Verini, M. A. JMC 1988, 31, 390. (d) FF 1967, 1, 403. (e) FF 1972, 3, 147.