Parabanic acid appears to be an important marker of free radical reactions in vivo and may be used to monitor free radical activity and to evaluate pharmacological therapy with radical scavengers.
A useful synthetic intermediate
Reactant for:• ;Enantiospecific assembly of homochiral, hexanuclear palladium complexes1• ;Mitsunobu reactions2• ;Quantitative cascade condensation reactions3Reactant for synthesis of:• ;Pyridine derivatives4• ;Nitroesters5• ;Parabanic acid derivatives6
ChEBI: An imidazolidinone that is imidazolidine which is substituted by oxo groups at positions 2, 4 and 5.
