Fused pyrimidine derivatives R 0515Highly Efficient Synthesis of Fused Bicyclic 2,3-Diaryl-pyrimidin-4(3H)-ones via Lewis Acid Assisted Cyclization Reaction. -Imidoyl chlorides, generated by treatment of starting amides with thionyl chloride, undergo cyclocondensation with various heteroaromatic amino esters. This key step is efficiently promoted by an excess of TiCl4 under microwave irradiation. -(YANG*, K.; HE, X.; CHOI, H.-S.; WANG, Z.; WOODMANSEE, D. H.; LIU, H.; Tetrahedron Lett. 49 (2008) 11, 1725-1728; Genomics Inst., Novartis Res. Found., San Diego, CA 92121, USA; Eng.) -S. Adam 26-162