Mechanistic aspect of ring transformations in the reaction of 5-nitro-4-pyrimidinone with acetophenone derivatives and cycloalkanones depending on the electron …
3-Methyl-5-nitro-4-pyrimidinone undergoes two kinds of nucleophilic type ring transformations upon treatment with cycloalkanones in the presence of ammonium acetate, which affords 4, 5-disubstituted pyrimidines and 5, 6-disubstituted 3-nitro-2-pyridones. In order to improve the synthetic utility of this reaction, it is necessary to control the regioselectivity of these ring transformations. In the present work, we performed DFT ...