It is known that quaternary N-alkyl salts of quinoxaline react with 1,3-diketones, forming double addition or cycloaddition products at the C(2)-C(3) bond [1,2]. We have found that unsubstituted quinoxaline reacted with 1,3-dimethylbarbituric acid at room temperature to form monosubstituted product in the absence of external acid-base catalysis, and we described a reaction of quinoxaline with ethyl 3-[(1,3-dimethyl-2,6-dioxotetrahydropyrimidin-4(1H)-ylidene)hydrazono]butanoate on heating in an acidic medium with the formation of 6,8-dimethylpyrimido[4,5-c]pyridazine-5,7(6H,8H)-dione [3].We recently published a preliminary report on an unusual reaction of quinoxaline (1) with 3-methyl-1-phenylpyrazol-5-one (2) in the presence of triethylamine [4], forming 4,4'-[1,2-bis(5-hydroxy-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)ethane-1,2-diyl]bis(5-methyl-2-phenyl-1,2-dihydro-3H-pyrazol-3-one) (3) in 47% yield and the known 4-[(5-hydroxy-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-4-yl)methylidene]-5-methyl-2-phenyl-2,4-di-hydro-3H-pyrazol-3-one (4) [5] in 7% yield (Scheme 1). In addition, o-phenylenediamine (5) was also isolated from the reaction mixture.The mechanism of the tetrapyrazolylethane 3 formation apparently included the following stages: nucleophilic addition of two 3-methyl-1-phenylpyrazol-5-one (2) molecules at the C=N bonds of quinoxaline