Stereoselective synthesis of dihydropyrimidinone glycoconjugates in high yields, from different sugar aldehydes, by a three-component coupling (Biginelli) reaction is reported. In this new method, HCl generated 'in situ' from 2,4,6-trichloro [1,3,5]triazine (TCT; 10 mol%), was used under mild and solvent free reaction conditions. J. Heterocyclic Chem., 42, 1387Chem., 42, (2005.Bio-active glycoconjugates have attracted attention in chemical, medicinal and pharmaceutical research [1]. Hence, for the creation of relatively complex glycosubstances with structural diversity, which play a prominent role in the medicinal and combinatorial chemistry [2], the development of efficient methods for multicomponent reactions is an attractive strategy. The Biginelli [3] multicomponent reaction, which involves an aldehyde, urea/thiourea and a β-ketoester, with sugar-derived aldehydes would result in the synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidinone (DHPM) glycoconjugates. These compounds are of vast attention to synthetic chemists due to their resemblance to C-nucleosides [4] and their pharmacological properties [5,6].Despite the fact that many procedures [7] have been reported for the Biginelli reaction -with catalytic amount of acid either at reflux or microwave heating, TMSClNaI/CH 3 CN [8] (equimolar/longer time) and TMSOTf [9] (strong acid) at room temperature, only one report by Dondoni et al. [10,11] described the synthesis of C-glycosylated DHPMs using CuCl (1 eq)-BF 3 .Et 2 O (1.3 eq)-AcOH (0.2 eq) in THF at reflux as diastereomeric mixtures with moderate yields. Hence, better reaction conditions were warranted to prepare such libraries of compounds. In view of our continued studies on the synthesis of new saccharides [12] and C-nucleosides [13], herein, we report, the HCl, generated in situ from 2,4,6-trichloro[1,3,5]-triazine (TCT) [14], catalyzed efficient protocol for cyclocondensation of sugar derived aldehydes with enhanced reaction rates under solvent free Biginelli conditions at room temperature, to result the glycoconjugates in high yields (Scheme 1).To establish the reaction conditions, 1-O-methyl 2,3-Oisopropylidene-α-D-mano-pentoaldo-1,4-furanose (1, Table 1) was subjected to reaction with equimolar quantities of ethyl acetoacetate and urea at room temperature in the presence of TCT (10 mol%) to furnish DHPM glycoconjugates 1a and 1b (Table 1), as a separable mixture of diastereoisomers in 76% and 11% yields respectively. The structures of 1a and 1b were unambiguously assigned from the spectral analysis.The structures of minor and major isomers were characterized as compound 1b and 1a respectively by extensive nmr studies using 2D DQCOSY and NOESY experiments (Figure 1). For 1b trans orientation of H5 (4.80, dd) with respect to H4 was evident from the large J value (J = 8.5 Hz). The NOE cross peak between CH 3 (a)-H5, confirm the rotation of pyrimidine ring with respect to sugar ring. The structure was further supported by characteristic NOE between CH 3 (a)-H1, CH 3 (b)-H2, and CH 3 (b)-H3. Similarly, for compo...