n Shahrivar Fallah - Department of Chemistry, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
M. Mokhtary - Department of Chemistry, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

The direct three component condensation of refluxing 9,10-phenenthraquinone or acenaphthenequinone with aryl aldehyde, and ammonium acetate to generate imidazole derivatives has been carried out over nano-SnO2 with high efficiency in ethanol under reflux conditions

nano-SnO2, Multicomponent reaction, imidazole derivatives, 9,10-phenenthraquinone,acenaphthenequinone