Synthesis of condensed systems containing the tetrazole ring by base-catalyzed intramolecular cyclization of quaternary ammonium salts

Quaternary ammonium salts containing propargyl and 3-(2-methyltetrazol-5-yl)propargyl groups undergo base-catalyzed cyclization at room temperature with self heating to form condensed heterocyclic systems containing the tetrazole ring. Heating at 90–92°C for 2 h is necessary to cyclize the allyl analogs of the starting salts.Communication 234 of the series Research on Amines and Ammonium Compounds. For 233, see 1].Institute of Organic Chemistry, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Erevan 375094. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 390–394, March, 1999.