Facile synthesis and characterization of substituted pyrimidin-2(1H)-ones and their chalcone precursors

Abstract

A new and efficient method has been developed for the quantitative transformation of chalcones to pyrimidine frame work vSa solid support catalysis, Silica supported sulphuric acid (SSA) efficiently catalyzed the reaction of α-β-unsaturated earbonyl, chalcones (140) with urea to afford substituted pyriniidin-2(1H)-ones (11-20) hi good to excellent yield. The interesting behaviour of SSA lies in the thct that it can be re-used after simple washing with chloroform thereby rendering this procedure more economical, The chemical structures were confirmed by analytical data as well as spectroscopic means.