Heterocyclic compounds incorporating the imidazole nucleus and their functionalization steadily attract considerable interest from organic chemists [1-2]. These compounds possess many attractive properties, in particular diverse biological and pharmacological [3-6] or antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities [3, 7]. Miscellaneous naturally occurring alkaloids, eg. the alkaloids isolated from marine sponge, soft corals, microorganisms and ...
