“…Several sildenafil analogues and related compounds were reported in the literature [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. In the present work [19], we also report the synthesis of three novel analogues (Scheme 3) of sildenafil, namely (i) 5-[2-ethoxy-5-(4-methylpiperazinylsulfonyl)phenyl]-1-methyl-3-ethyl-1,6-dihydro-7 H -pyrazolo[4,3- d ]pyrimidin-7-one (sildenafil ethyl analogue, 4a ); (ii) 5-[2-ethoxy-5-(4-methylpiperazinylsulfonyl)phenyl]-1-methyl-3- n -butyl-1,6-dihydro-7 H -pyrazolo[4,3- d ]pyrimidin-7-one (sildenafil butyl analogue, 4b ); and (iii) 5-[2-ethoxy-5-(4-methylpiperazinylsulfonyl)phenyl]-1-methyl-3-isopropyl-1,6-dihydro-7 H -pyrazolo[4,3- d ]pyrimidin-7-one (sildenafil isopropyl analogue, 4c ) using the improved chlorosulfonation reaction.…”