“…Cyclocondensation of imines 1a-k with 2 amino crotononitrile 2, 6 aminouracils 5a-d, 6 aminothio uracils 6a,b, and N substituted 3 aminocyclohexenones 7a-c (equimolar amounts of the reagents were mixed in DMF at 20 °C and, after completion of the exother mic reaction, the mixture was heated in the presence of catalytic amounts of Et 3 Therefore, acylimines of hexafluoroacetone can be successfully used as 1,3 bielectrophiles in the synthesis of various previously unknown 4,4 bis(trifluoromethyl) 1,4 dihydropyrimidines, including fused derivatives. The ease of the preparation of the latter is determined primarily by the ease of the preparation of 1,3 C,N binucleophiles, the available procedures for the synthesis of acylimines of hexafluoroacetone, 1,10 and the experimental simplicity of the developed method.…”