Nagatoshi Nishiwaki, Hui-Ping Wang, Kengo Matsuo, Yasuo Tohda and Masahiro Ariga
3-Methyl-5-nitropyrimidin-4(3H)-one reacts with ketones in the presence of ammonium salts to afford disubstituted pyrimidines and disubstituted 3-nitro-2-pyridones in a novel ring transformation reaction; nitropyrimidinone behaves as an activated diformylamine in the former case, and as a synthetic equivalent of α-nitroformylacetic acid in the latter case.