Formamide pyrimidines, 4-amino- from

Treatment of the symmetrical triaminopyrimidine (50-1) with sulfuryl chloride ties up the two adjacent amines in a thiadiazole ring, protecting those groups from attacks in subsequent reactions. Reaction of the product (50-2) with ortho difluorinated benzylamine (50-3) results in the replacement of the pyrimidine amino group by that in the reagent most hkely by an addition-elimination sequence to afford (50-4). That amino group is then converted to the formamide (50-5) with formic acid. Exposure of the product to Raney nickel leads to a loss of sulfur and the formation of the transient intermediate (50-6). This cyclizes to a purine... 

Amines from formamides s. 12,470 5-Amino- from 5-formamido-pyrimidines s. 14, 38 Selective hydrolysis s. 13, 44, 56 NGHO NH... 

A combination of the preceding type of synthesis and of cyclization of 4-amino-5-arylazopyrimidine can be seen in the novel procedure of Richter and Taylor. Proceeding from phenylazomalonamide-amidine hydrochloride (180), they actually close both rings in this synthesis. The pyrimidine ring (183) is closed by formamide, the triazole (181) one by oxidative cyclization in the presence of cupric sulfate. Both possible sequences of cyclization were used. The synthetic possibilities of this procedure follow from the combination of the two parts. The synthesis was used for 7-substituted 2-phenyl-l,2,3-triazolo[4,5-d]-pyrimidines (184, 185). An analogous procedure was employed to prepare the 7-amino derivatives (188) from phenylazomalondiamidine (186). 

Acid chlorides, acetic anhydride,and formamide have also been used to synthesize pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines from 2-ammo-nicotinamides, although in the last case high temperatures were necessary. It is suspected that all the foregoing eyclizations proceed via initial acylation of the 2-amino group to yield an intermediate 2 - amidonicotinamide. 

Alkylpyrimidines were obtained in 59-70% yield from higher 1-dimethyl-amino- and l-methoxyalk-l-en-3-ynes (R = Me, Et, -Pr) by their reaction with formamide (70ZOR2374). The exception was l-methoxy-5,5-dimethylhex-l-en-3-yne, from which the pyrimidine was obtained in 45% yield only, which is related to steiic hindrance for the attack at the acetylene bond. 

Pyrimido[5.4-r/]pyrimidines 5 and 6 are readily prepared by the condensation of 5-amino-2,6-dihydroxypyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid ( orotic acid ) with formamidc or urea. Reaction of the starting pyrimidine with formamide gives pyrimido[5,4-c/]pyrimidine-2,4,8-triol (5), which can also be prepared from ethyl 5-aminoorotate in 72% yield. In this case, the 5-amino group is first converted into the (ethoxymethylene)amino derivative and then treated with ammonia.207 The corresponding tetrol 6 results from reaction of the starting pyrimidine with urea.152,203... 

Pyrimidine-fused Systems.—The Gewald synthesis of thiophen analogues of anthranilic acid has opened the synthetic route to pyrimidine-fused thiophens. The interest in this field is mainly due to the potential pharmacological properties of these systems. Condensation of (603) with forma-mide at 200 °C yields (604). Similarly, (605) was prepared from 3-amino-2-methoxycarbonylthiophen or from its formamide derivative. Derivatives of (604) were also obtained by cyclization of the 2-amino-3-carboxamide... 

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