Tricyclic pyrido thieno pyrimidines

Cyclocondensation of 3-cyano-2-methylthio-4//-pyrido[l, 2-u]pyrimidin-4-ones and ethyl mercaptoacetate in boiling EtOH in the presence of NaOEt afforded 4//-pyrido[l,2-u]thieno[2,3-r/ pyrimidin-4-ones 210 (00HC571). 2-Methylthio-4-oxo-4//-pyrido[l,2-u]pyrimidine-3-carboxylates 211 and mercaptoacetates afforded tricyclic derivatives 212 (93MIP1). Cyclocondensation of 2-methylthio-4-oxo-4//-pyrido[l, 2-u]pyrimidin-3-car-bonitriles 213 with H2NNH2 H2O and with guanidine HCl afforded tricyclic derivatives 214 and 215, respectively (96FES781). 

A recently developed synthesis (Scheme 94) of pyrido[3, 2 4,5]-thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidines starts with the appropriate iminophosphorane 257, which affords with heterocumulenes the tricyclic pyrimidines 258a-c (94T6705). 

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