Patent 7232905 was granted and assigned to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research on June, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention provides a process for the preparation of substituted dihydropyrimidinones using polyaniline salts as reusable catalysts, which comprises reacting an aldehyde, a β-keto ester and urea/thiourea in the presence of a polyaniline salt catalyst and separating the substituted dihydropyrimidinone obtained.