I wouldn't say Ugi products form within minutes or seconds - at least the ones we do take hours or even days
- Jean-Claude Bradley
I took that from a quote, "The exothermic U-4CR usually proceeds fast, within seconds or a few minutes at room temperature or below." from an article: Alexander Dömling, Ivor Ugi. Multicomponent Reactions with Isocyanides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 3181. I do agree with you that it does take longer than that for the product to precipitate.
- David Bulger
interesting David - I don't think we are using unusual reactants
- Jean-Claude Bradley