Comptes Rendus de L'Academie Bulgare des Sciences, vol.76, no.12, pp.1801-1810, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
Let R be a commutative ring with 1 ≠ 0. A proper ideal I of R is said to be a quasi maximal ideal if for every a ∈ R - I, either I + Ra = R or I + Ra is a maximal ideal of R. This class of ideals lies between 2-absorbing ideals and maximal ideals which is different from prime ideals. In addition to give fundamental properties of quasi maximal ideals, we characterize principal ideal UN-rings with √02= (0), direct product of two fields, and Noetherian zero dimensional modules in terms of quasi maximal ideals.