Pinner pyrimidine synthesis

The condensation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds 1 with amidines 2 catalyzed by acids or bases to give pyrimidine derivatives 3 is regarded as the Pinner pyrimidine synthesis. ... 

Although the Pinner pyrimidine synthesis was discovered a century ago only a few reports on the reaction mechanism have appeared. The condensation of acetylacetone, methyl acetoacetate, or dimethyl malonate with acetamidine (6) has been studied by Katritzky et al. and the reaction mechanisms for these processes have been proposed by these authors. Outlined below is the proposed mechanism of the condensation of methyl acetoacetate (4) with acetamidine (6)7... 

Linkers of this type have been successfully employed in the synthesis of a library of 2-substituted pyrimidines by a Pinner-type condensation between a resin-bound enaminone and a set of amidines (Scheme 40). The purities of the desired pyrimidines were in the range 27-98% [105]. 

In a standard method, 1,3-diketones are cyclocondensed with amidines, ureas, thioureas and guanidines giving 4,6-di- and 2,4,6-trisubstituted pyrimidines 4, 2-pyrimidones 5, 2-thiopyrimidones 6 and 2-aminopyrimidines 7 respectively Pinner synthesis) [140] ... 

Adolf Pinner (Wronke, Posen, 31 August 1842-Berlin, 21 May 1909) was privatdocent (1871), associate professor (1878) in the University of Berlin, and professor in the Veterinary College, Berlin. He worked on imino-ethers R C( NH) OR, discovered pyrimidine, and proposed the correct formula for nicotine, confirmed by synthesis by A. Pictet. ... 

Parham cycloalkylation 343 Patemo-Btichi reaction 46 von Pechmann synthesis (coumarin) 322 Pellizari synthesis (1,2,4-triazole) 270 Perkin rearrangement 82 Pfitzinger synthesis (quinoline) 398 Pictet-Gams synthesis (isoquinoline) 414 Pictet-Spengler synthesis (isoquinoline) 415 Piloty-Robinson synthesis (pyrrole) 119 Pinner synthesis (pyrimidine) 467 Plancher rearrangement 128 Polonovski reaction 545 Pomeranz-Fritsch synthesis (isoquinoline) 415 Prileschajew reaction 23 Prins reaction 452 Pummerer rearrangement 26, 457... 

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