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Chul Woo Lee

Sang Moo Lee

Jae Sung Lee

A process for preparing N, N-disubstituted urea and more particularly, to an improved process for preparing N,N'-disubstituted urea derivatives of the following formula (I) comprising ##STR1## wherein each of Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 represents unsubstituted aromatic radical or aromatic radical substituted with halogen, atom, alkyl group, or alkoxy group, and Ar.sup.1 and Ar.sup.2 are the same or different, reacting aromatic mono-nitro compound, aromatic primary amines, and carbon monoxide in the presence of the catalyst composition consisting of a palladium compound as a main catalyst and an ammonium or a phosphonium salt containing halogen atom aS a co-catalyst, and a non-polar solvent.

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