The thermally initiated intramolecular criss-cross cycloaddition of 3-substituted homoallenylaldazines 5 has been explored. Their cyclization led to interesting new fused heterocyclic systems 6 consisting of four five-membered rings with two nitrogen heteroatoms. The azines were prepared by the reaction of homoallenyl aldehydes 4 with hydrazine. The homoallenyl aldehydes 4 were synthesized by the Claisen rearrangement of new N,N-disubstituted 4-[(2-methylprop-
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