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SummaryNew fluorescent compounds, benzo[4,5]thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidine 5,5-dioxides (3a–g), 2-amino-4-methylsulfanylbenzo[4,5]thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidine (6), and 2-amino-4-methylsulfanyl-7-methoxybenzo[4,5]furo[3,2-d]pyrimidine (7), were synthesized in good yields from heterocyclic ketene dithioacetals (1a–c) and guanidine carbonate (2a) or (S)-methylisothiourea sulfate (2b) in pyridine under reflux. Among the fused pyrimidine derivatives, compound 3c, which has an amino group at the 2-position and a benzylamino group at the 4-position of the pyrimidine ring, showed the strongest solid-state fluorescence. The absorption and emission properties of the compounds were quantitatively reproduced by a series of ab initio quantum-chemical calculations.

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In the synthesis of 4H-quinolizine derivatives involving the use of a sulfonyl ketene dithioacetal, we found a novel reaction in which the remaining methylsulfanyl group was replaced with a proton after the ring-closure reaction in the quinolizine skeleton under mild conditions, without the use of any metallic reagent. The reaction of 3,3-bis(methylsulfanyl)-2-phenylsulfonylacrylonitriles (1a,b) with 2-pyridylacetonitrile (2a) in the presence of potassium carbonate as a base in DMSO afforded 4-imino-2-methylsulfanyl-3-phenylsulfonyl-4H-quinolizine-1-carbonitriles (3a,b). The methyl-