. When refluxed with urea in ethanol, certain 4-chloromethyl-1,4-dihydropyridines undergo reamangement to give 1,2,5,9-tetrahydro-l-oxopy1~olo [l,2-c]pyrimidines In good yield. The structures of the products are established by spectroscopic properties and by dehydrogenation, hydrolysis, anddecarboxylation to a 1,2-dihydro-1-oxopyrrolo[l,2-clpyrimidine. In contrast, the reaction between thiourea and the 4-chloromethyl-1,4-dihydropyridines occurs w~thout rearrangement and gives isothiouronium salts which were isolated as the picrates.ERIC BULLOCK, BRIAN GREGORY et M. THOMAS THOMAS. Can. J. Chem. 55, 693 (1977). Lorsque l'on porte certaines chloromethyl-4 dihydro-1,4 pyridines au reflux avec de I'uree dans I'ethanol, il se produit un rearrangement qui conduit aux tetrahydro-1,2,5,9 0x0-l pyrrolo[1.2-clpyrimidines avec de bon rendement. On a etabli les structures des produits par des methodes spectroscopiques et par deshydrogenation, hydrolyse et decarboxylation pour conduire a la dihydro-1,2 0x0-l pyrrolo[l,2-c,]pyrimidine. Par opposition, la reaction entre la thiouree et les chloromethyl-4 dihydro-1,4 pyridines se produit sans rearrangement et donne des sels d'isothiouronium qui ont pu Ctre isoles sous forme de picrates.[Traduit par le journal]4-Chloromethyl-l,4-dihydropyridines having electron-withdrawing substituents such as ethoxycarbonyl (I), acetyl (2), and cyano (3) groups at C, and C, were first synthesized by Benary who also reported some of their reactions with nucleophilic reagents. A reinvestigation of the action of cyanide ion on the diester l c revealed that ring expansion had taken place leading to a 4,5-dihydro-lH-azepine (4), and this was extended to the dicyano ( 5 ) and diacetyl compounds (6). Subsequent work has shown that the chloromethyl compounds may be used in the synthesis of azepines (7), pyrroles (4-7), fulvenes (8). 2,3-dihydrofurans (6), 2-aza-8-thiabicyclo-[3.2.l]oct-3-enes (9), and furo[2,3-blpyridines (10). We now report that the reaction of urea on the 4-chloromethyl compounds leads to pyrrolo[l,2-clpyrimidine derivatives in adequate yield.When the chloromethyl compound Pc was refluxed with urea in ethanol, the ultraviolet maxima at 231 and 349 nm (4) of the dihydropyridine chromophore were replaced, over the course of a few hours, by bands at 263 and 310 nm. Addition of water at this stage caused precipitation of a compound C,,H,,N,O,, M + 308 whose ultraviolet spectrum was incompatible with the presence of dihydropyridine, tetrahydropyridine, dihydroazepine, and pyrrole chromophores. The infrared spectrum revealed the presence of NH (v,,, 3415 cm-I) and ester group(s) (v,,, 1707 cm-I), while the mass spectrum was indicative of the presence of two ester groups (see below). The nmr spectrum showed signals due to methyl groups at 6 2.68 (t,' J -1 Hz) and 2.28 (d, J -1 Hz), which exhibit homollylic coupling to two and one protons respectively. The appearance of 1 : 1 : 1 : 1 quartets at 6