Synthesis of Pyrimidines,Thienopyrimidines, and Pyrazolopyrimidines

5-Ethoxycarbonyl-4-methyl-2-phenylpyrimidin-6(1H)-thione ( 3 ), which was prepared from the reaction of ethyl g -aminocrotonate 1 with benzoyl isothiocyanate ( 2 ) in refluxing acetone, was reacted with a series of halopgenated reagents to give S-alkyl derivatives 4a-g . Upon treatment of compounds 4a-c with sodium ethoxide were cyclized into thienopyrimidine 10a-c . Pyrimidinethione 3 was reacted with hydrazine hydrate to give hydroxypyrazolopyrimidine derivative 6 . The later compound was obtained by heating compound 4a with hydrazine hydrate under neat conditions, but when the reaction was carried using hydrazine hydrate in ethanol, the corresponding carbohydrazide 5 was produced.