M. Szabo et al., STEREOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS OF A 2,3-DISUBSTITUTED 5-PYRROLIDINONE DERIVATIVE OF QUINAZOLIN-4(3H)-ONE, Heterocycles, 45(12), 1997, pp. 2437-2442
Thermal cyclization of acetoacetamide (3), prepared from 1'-(p-methoxy
phenylaminoethyl]quinazolin-4(3H)-one (2) and ethyl acetoacetate, resu
lted in the formation of 2-(5-oxopyrrolidin-2-yl)quinazolin-4(3H)-one
(6) with high selectivity in excellent yield. The stereostructure of 6
was investigated by NMR spectroscopy, and determined by X-Ray investi
gations.