“…By heating compound 1 with P 2 S 5 in boiling anhydrous pyridine we obtained 3-tert-butylpyrimido[4′,5′:3,4]-pyrazolo[5,1-c] [1,2,4]triazine-4,10(6H,9H)-dithione (3) (Scheme 1). In addition, 8% of 3-tert-butyl-4-thioxo-4,9-dihydropyrimido[4′,5′:3,4]pyrazolo[5,1-c]- [1,2,4]triazin-10(6H)-one (5) was isolated as by-product. Likewise, analogous treatment of compound 2 gave dithione 4, but no by-product like 5 was isolated (only its traces were detected).…”