Thiazolidione, conferring drug-like properties, is an
important
heterocycle that widely exists in medicinally relevant molecules.
In this work, by efficiently assembling various DNA-tagged primary
amines, abundant aryl isothiocyanates, and ethyl bromoacetate, we
present a DNA-compatible three-component annulation to generate a
2-iminothiazolidin-4-one scaffold, which was further decorated via
Knoevenagel condensation by employing (hetero)aryl and alkyl aldehydes.
These thiazolidione derivatives should find broad use in focused DNA-encoded
library construction.