Oxygen heterocycles. Part XV. A novel heterocyclic system: 2H-pyrano[6,5-b]phenothiazine
Abstract
N-Ethyl-2-methoxyphenothiazine underwent formylation at the 3-position in the Vilsmeir–Haack reaction; the resulting aldehyde was condensed with aryl- and heteryl-acetonitriles to give acrylonitriles which were readily converted by pyridine hydrochloride into the 2-oxo-derivatives of the new heterocyclic system 2H-pyrano[6,5-b]phenothiazine.