“…The synthetic strategy employed to obtain the target 3,4-dihydropyridin-2(1H)-ones 17a−h is depicted in Scheme 1. Following a previously described procedure, 37 d]pyrimidine-2,5-diones 18 were obtained by submitting 28 to an eliminative cyclization in dimethylformamide, 38 whereas pyrrolo [3,4-d]pyrimidine-2,5-diones 19 were readily obtained by microwave heating of 28 with ethylamine. 39 As for the previous target structures (17−19), the ligands bearing heterocycles fused to the 2,3-positions of the pyrimidine core (20−22) were assembled by a threecomponent Biginelli condensation (Scheme 3) 40,41 that employs heterocyclic surrogates of the urea component [i.e., 2-aminoimidazole (29a), 2-amino-1,2,4-triazole (29b), or 2aminobenzimidazole (29c)] as key precursors in combination with the carbaldehydes (25a−d) and the corresponding alkyl acetoacetates (24a,b).…”