Vilsmeier Reaction of 3-Aminopropenamides: One-Pot Synthesis of Pyrimidin-4 (3 H)-ones

R Zhang, D Zhang, Y Liang, G Zhou…

Index: Zhang, Rui; Zhang, Dingyuan; Liang, Yongjiu; Zhou, Guangyuan; Dong, Dewen Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2011 , vol. 76, # 8 p. 2880 - 2883

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Abstract

A facile one-pot synthesis of pyrimidin-4 (3 H)-ones was developed via reactions of a series of readily available 3-aminopropenamides with varied Vilsmeier reagents, and a mechanism involving sequential halogenation, formylation, and intramolecular nucleophilic cyclization is proposed.