“…They show a diversity of bioactive properties such as antitumor, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, cardiotonic, antiviral, and antimalarial activity . These scaffolds are also important intermediates in many organic transformations . A series of methods have been developed for the synthesis of 1,6-annulated 2-pyridones and 2,3-annulated 4-pyrimidinones such as intramolecular nucleophilic substitution, radical cyclization, intramolecular alkenylation, and intramolecular Heck reaction.…”