2-Amino-3-aryl-4-iminothieno

When o-aminocarbonitriles 48 (R2 = R3 = Me) or 52 were reacted with jY-arylcyanamides in the presence of dry hydrogen chloride gas followed by aqueous workup, a mixture of 2-amino-3-aryl-4-iminothieno[2,3-d]-pyrimidines 65d and the corresponding thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4(3//)-ones 66b was isolated. The formation of the latter as a minor product for each derivative was rationalized to proceed via the guanidine intermediate 67, which hydrolyzed through a Ritter-type reaction and then cyclized during workup (93JHC435). 

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