Assistant Lecturer Nouras Talib Jassim, a faculty member in the Chemical Engineering Department at the College of Engineering, University of Basra, received two Russian patents in the field of chemical engineering for publishing a research paper in the Russian Journal of General Chemistry, a journal indexed in Scopus. The paper, titled "REACTION OF AROMATIC ALDEHYDES, MELDRUM'S ACID, MONOTHIOMALONAMIDE, AND TRIETHYLAMINE: SYNTHESIS, STRUCTURE, AND PROPERTIES OF NEW STABLE MICHAEL ADDUCTS’’
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Abstract: The reaction of monothiomalonamide with aromatic aldehydes and Mildrum acid in the presence of triethylamine led to the formation of a previously unknown stable Michael addition product: triethylammonium 3,5-amino-1-(HT)aryl-3-oxo-2-thiocarbamoylpropyl-2,2-dimethyl-4-oxo-1,3,4-H-dioxene-6 - Olates with yields ranging from 64 to 83. The prepared additives exist as a mixture of stereoisomers with a predominance of trans-hydrogen atoms at C2C1.

The stereochemical and structural properties of the resulting compounds were studied using quantitative chemistry methods. Alkylation of the Michael additives synthesized with aryl-2-chloroacetamide yields 22-thio-di-arylacetamide. Among the new products, two samples were found to exhibit a clear antagonistic effect against the herbicide 2,4-D in laboratory and field experiments on sunflower seedlings.