“…Synthetic analogues of naturally occurring polyaza-heteroaromatic compounds, such as pteridines, are of considerable interest because of their extensive pharmaceutical potential, for example, as inhibitors of folic acid biosynthesis (Lang et al, 1995) and their action as antiallergic (Ferrand et al, 1996), antihelminthic (Ochoa et al, 1996), anti-in¯ammatory (Cottam et al, 1996) and antiviral agents (Molina et al, 1999). We report here the structure of one such synthetic pteridine, methyl 7-hydroxy-1,3-dimethyl-2,4-dioxo-1,2,3,4-tetrahydropteridine-6-carboxylate, (1), which is a useful intermediate for the synthesis of folic acid analogues (Molina et al, 1999) and which crystallizes from dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solution as the monosolvate, i.e.…”