| Abstract: | Condensation of isovaleric aldehyde with cyanothioacetamide and acetylacetone or its enamine produces 5-acetyl-3-cyano-4-isobutyl-6-methyl-3,4-dihydropyridine-2(1H)-thione, from which 5-acetyl-3-cyano-4-isobutyl-6-methylpyridine-2(1H)-thione and the corresponding substituted 2-alkylthio-1,4-dihydropyridines are prepared. T. G. Shevchenko Lugansk State Pedagogical Institute, Lugansk 348011, Ukraine; e-mail: kgb@lgpi.lugansk.ua; N. D. Zelinskii Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117913, Russia; Translated from Khimiya Geterotsiklicheskikh Soedinenii, No. 4, pp. 516–519, April, 1999. |
