“…Diazonium salt 7 coupled with active methylene compounds such as ethyl cyanoacetate, malononitrile, diethyl malonate, ethyl acetoacetate, acetylacetone, 3-(1,4-dioxo-3,4,4e,5,10,10a-hexahydro-1H-5,10-benzeno-benzo[g]phthalazine-2-yl)-3-oxopropiononitrile [16], and 2-cyano-N-(1,5-dimethyl-3-oxo-2-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)acetamide [17], to give the corresponding hydrazono derivatives 12a-g, respectively. Refluxing of 12a-c and 12f, g in acetic acid furnished the pyridopyrazolotriazines 13a-d and 14 [4,[6][7][8] (Scheme 5 and 6). …”