Keywords: 8-aroylamino-1,2,3,7-tetrahydroimidazo[1,2-c]pyrimidines, phosphorus pentasulfide, polyphosphoric acid, triethyl orthoformate, heterocyclization.N-(2-Amino-1-imidazolidin-2-ylidene-2-thioxoethyl)arylamides 1 (see Scheme), synthesized from available 2-acylamino-3,3-dichloroacrylonitriles [1], were used previously to obtain the new heterocyclic system 4,5,7,It was shown in the present study that compounds 1 may be applied in the synthesis of one more new heterocyclic system 3, viz. 7,8-dihydroimidazo[1,3-c][1,3]thiazolo[4,5-e]pyrimidine. In difference to the preparation of the 7,8-dihydroimidazo[1,2-c][1,3]oxazolo[4,5-e]pyrimidine system in [3], in the present case a different method of design of the tricyclic heterocyclic system was used, the key stage of which was not the formation of the pyrimidine ring but annelation of the five-membered ring to a tetrahydroimidazo[1,2-c]pyrimidine fragment. First, compounds 1a-c were condensed with triethyl orthoformate with the formation of the previously unknown 8-aroylamino-7-thioxo-1,2,3,7-tetrahydroimidazo[1,2-c]pyrimidines 2a-c (Scheme and Table 1).Similar heterocyclizations of compounds with the characteristic fragment NH C C C(S)NH 2 were described previously in [4,5], but the products of such reactions are as a rule monocyclic derivatives of pyrimi-