“…To confirm the structure of compound 12 an independent route was followed, compound 4a was refluxed in boiling formic acid to produce pyrrolopyrimidinone-7-carboxamide 13. Compound 13 was refluxed in phosphorus oxychloride to obtain 4-chloropyrrolopyrimidines 14 24 , then reacting compound 14 with aniline, the pyrrolo[3,2-d]pyrimidine 12 (65 %) was isolated, whose spectral characteristics were completely coincident with the samples obtained before (Scheme 3). Under the same reaction conditions, the amidines 7b and 8b reacted with aniline to afford the bicyclic compound 4-oxo-3-phenylpyrrolo[3,2-d]pyrimidine 15.…”