Synthesis of ethoxycarbonyl-1,4- and -1,2-dihydropyridinecarboxylic acid amides

3-Carbamoyl derivatives of 4-phenyl-5-ethoxycarbonyl-2,6-dimethyl-1,4-dihydropyridine were obtained by cyclocondensation of 2-benzylideneacetoacetic ester with -aminocrotonic acid amide or anilides. In the alkylation of 4-phenyl-5-ethoxycarbonyl-2,6-dimethyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-3-carboxylic acid anilides the amido group is initially alkylated, after which the ring NH group is alkylated, while the thiocarbamoyl group is converted to a cyano group. Reduction of the pyridinium salts gave 3- and 5-carbamoyl derivatives of 4-phenyl-1,2,6-trimethyl-1,2-dihydropyridine-5- and -3-carboxylic acids.Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 12, pp. 1665–1673, December, 1991.