The tandem cyclization of easily accessible allenoates
and cyclic
amidines for the synthesis of functionalized tricyclic pyridopyrimidines
is reported herein. The annulation featured a broad substrate scope
with good functional group tolerance under very mild conditions (35
examples, 32–85% yields). The pyridopyrimidines were obtained
in a very short reaction time (1 min), at room temperature, under
neat conditions, which offers an alternative way to the sustainable
synthesis of functionalized pyridopyrimidines. The scalability of
the developed protocol is further demonstrated by a gram-scale synthesis.