Synthesis of bicyclic analogues of deoxyvasicinone

6-Methyl-2,3-tri-, -tetra-, and -pentamethylene-3,4-dihydropyrimidin-4-ones and 6-phenyl-2,3-tri-3,4-dihydropyrimidin-4-one (bicyclic analogues of deoxyvasicinone) have been synthesized by the condensation of ethyl esters of -aminocrotonic and -aminocinnamic acids with lactams. It has been shown that the occurrence of the reaction and yields of the products of the condensation of ethyl -aminocrotonate with lactams depend both on the number of methylene groups in the lactams and also on the reaction conditions. With an increase in the number of methylene groups of the lactams the yields of condensation products decrease.Institute of Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. A. Navoi Samarkand State University. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 3, pp. 394–396, May–June, 1991.