“…The dihydropyrimidinone core and its derivatives form an important class of compounds, as it is present in a large family of natural products with broad biological activities as antihypertensive, antiviral, antitumor and anti-inflammatory agents and as calcium channel blockers [15]. Attempts to synthesize these moieties by the Biginelli reaction over various heterogeneous catalysts such as KSF [16], silica sulfuric acid [17] and more recently, the Lewis acids cerium (III) and indium(III) chloride [18], CuCl 2 H 2 O/CuSO 4 ·5H 2 O [19] and ferric chloride/tetraethyl orthosilicate system are reported [20]. Recently, sulfated zirconia and sulfated zirconia modified with metals have been used in organic transformations to obtain 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones, bis-(indoyl)methane derivatives, 2,3-dihydro-1H-1,5-benzodiazepines, diaryl sulfoxides, coumarins, diphenylureas and protected carbonyl compounds and ZrO 2 /pillared clay has been reported to be an efficient catalyst for solventless synthesis of dihydropyrimidinones [21].…”