“…One‐pot three‐component condensation reaction of substituted benzaldehydes, malononitrile, and thiophenol or ethanol in a 1:2.2:1 molar ratio in the presence of different catalysts such as K 2 CO 3 , NaHCO 3 , NaOH , NaH , Et 3 N , DBU , DABCO , piperidine , TBAF , TBAH , [bmim]OH , H 3 BO 3 , ZnCl 2 , MgO , Ce‐V/Al 2 O 3 , KF/Al 2 O 3 , ZrOCl 2 .8H 2 O/NaNH 2 , basic alumina , silica NPs , CaO NPs , CuI NPs , and ZnO NPs for the synthesis of polysubstituted pyridines has already been reported. Surprisingly, when we reacted equimolar amounts of malononitrile and benzaldehydes in ethanol under mild basic conditions, various hexahydropyrido[2,3‐ d ]pyrimidines 3a – h were obtained in good to excellent yield through a pseudo‐five‐component reaction (Scheme ).…”