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2. Recent perspectives concerning the mechanism of H3O+- and hydroxide-promoted amide hydrolysis
3. Imidazole Catalysis
4. Effect of the leaving group in the hydrolysis of N-acylimidazoles. The hydroxide ion, water, and general-base catalyzed hydrolysis of N-acyl-4(5)-nitroimidazoles