“…Mashraqui & Karnik, 1998;Nakamichi et al, 2002;Pfister, 1990;Sabitha et al, 2003;Sausins & Duburs, 1988;Vanden Eynde et al, 1995;Vanden Eynde et al, 1992;Varma & Kumar, 1999); however, unfortunately, most of these methods use strong oxidants accomplished by the transition metals such as ferric nitrate (Khadilkar & Borkar, 1998), CrO 3 (Sausins & Duburs, 1988), MnO 2 (Vanden Eynde et al, 1995), PCC (Vanden Eynde et al, 1992), Zr(NO 3 ) 4 (Sabitha et al, 2003), Bi(NO 3 ) 3 (Mashraqui & Karnik, 1998), claysupported cupric nitrate (Maquestiau et al, 1991), H 2 O 2 /Co(OAc) 2 (Hashemi et al, 2003), Pb(OAc) 4 (Litvić et al, 2005), RuCl 3 /O 2 (Sausins & Duburs, 1988), ceric ammonium nitrate (CAN) (Pfister, 1990), Pd/C (Nakamichi et al, 2002), KMnO 4 (Eynde, D'Orazio, & Haverbeke, 1994) and Mn(OAc) 3 (Varma & Kumar, 1999). Also, some other oxidants such as DDQ (Vanden Eynde et al, 1995), heteropolyacid/NaNO 2 /SiO 2 (Niknam, Zolfigol, Razavian, & Mohammadpoor, 2005), I 2 /MeOH (Yadav, Subba Reddy, Sabitha, & Kiran Kumar Reddy, 2000), nitric oxide (Itoh, Nagata, Okada, & Ohsawa, 1995), HNO 3 (García, Delgado, Cano, & Alvarez, 1993) and SeO 2 (Cai, Yang, & Zhang, 2005) have been used for aromatization of 1,4-dihyroptridines. But, many of these methodologies suffer from drawbacks such as requiring intensive reaction conditions or needing excess oxidants or long times and afford only poor to moderate yields of products with difficult work-up procedure (Cai et al, 2005;Garcia et al, 1993;Hashemi et al, 2003;Itoh et al, 1995;…”