Synthesis of N-methylmorpholinium 6-oxo-3,5-dicyano-1,4,5,6-tetrahydro-4-(spirocyclopentane)pyridine-2-thiolate with the Michael reaction

N-Methylmorpholinium 6-oxo-3,5-dicyano-1,4,5,6-tetrahydro-4-(spirocyclopentane)pyridine-2-thiolate was obtained by reaction of cyclopentylidenecyanoacetic ester with cyanothioacetamide or cyclopentylidenecyanothioacetamide with cyanoacetic ester in the presence of N-methylmorpholine; it is used in synthesis of substituted 2-alkylthiotetrahydropyridines, 5-oxo-6,8-dicyano-2,3,6,7-tetrahydro-(5H)-7-(spirocyclopentane)-thiazolo3,2-a]pyridine, 5-allyl-2-methylthio-3,5-dicyano-4,5-dihydro-4-(spirocyclo-pentane)pyridin-6(1H)-one, and 3-amino-6-oxo-5-cyano-4,5-dihydro-4-(spirocyclopentane)-2H-pyrazolo5,4-b]pyridin-6(7H)-one. T. G. Shevchenko Lugansk State Pedagogical Institute, Lugansk 348011, Ukraine, N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117913, Russia. Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 208–212, February, 1998.