“…To the best of our knowledge, there has been only one report on the synthesis of cycloalkanecondensed 1,4-diazepinones. 1 However, certain 1,4-diazepin-5-ones exhibit significant biological properties, for example, as lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 inhibitors, 2 anticonvulsants, 3 HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors, 4 pharmacophores for structure-activity relationships, 5 and most recently, c-turn-like mimics. 6 We report here an efficient, microwave (MW)-assisted method for the preparation of cis-and trans-cyclohexane-and cis-cyclopentane-condensed 5H-1,4,6,7-tetrahydro-1,4-diazepin-5-ones.…”