“…Garin Javier et al [1][2] reported synthesis of 1-substituted derivatives of pyrazolo [3',4':4,5]pyrimido [2,1-b]benzothiazole from respective diphenyl pyrazolo pyrimidine thione and N-chlorosuccinimide in sulphuric acid. In continuation of our earlier work [4] on the synthesis of fused heterocycles containing bridgehead nitrogen atom, we report in this paper a convenient route for the synthesis of 3-amino-4-oxo-(2H)/aryl/heteryl pyrazolo [3',4 2-Amino benzothiazole in dimethyl formamide in the presence of anhydrous potassium carbonate was refluxed with ethyl-2-cyano-3,3-bismethylthio acrylate to get the required starting compound (1) which contains reactive thiomethyl group at the 2-position and a cyano group at the 3-position [4]. Compound (1) on heating independently with hydrazine hydrate, phenyl hydrazine, 2-hydrazino benzothiazole [5], 4-nitro phenyl hydrazine, 2,4-dinitro phenyl hydrazine and 6-nitro-2-hydrazino benzothiazole [5] in the presence of dimethyl formamide and a catalytic amount of potassium carbonate afforded 3-amino-4-oxo-(2H)/aryl/heteryl pyrazolo [3',4':4,5]pyrimido [2,1-b]benzothiazoles(3a-f) respectively in 42-60% yield(Scheme I).…”