中文摘要：

2-咪唑啉是一类重要的五元含氮杂环化合物，基于其良好的反应性及生物活性在药物化学、天然产物化学、防腐缓蚀及催化等领域应用广泛，一直以来此类化合物的合成和应用拓展倍受关注．综述了近年来2-咪唑啉类化合物合成及其应用研究的新进展．

英文摘要：

As an important class of heterocyclic scaffolds, 2-imidazolines and their derivatives are an important class of molecules. Based on their good reactivity and biological activity, they are widely used in the field of drugs and pharmaceuticals, natural product chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, coordination chemistry, anticorrosion and homogeneous catalysis. Significant effort has been devoted to the synthesis and applications of such compounds. This review provides a summary of recently developed methods for the preparation of 2-imidazolines, and their latest developments of applications.