5,6-dimethyl-2-Thiouracil is a heterocyclic building block that has been used in the synthesis of anti-HIV-1 pyrimidinones.1 It has also been used as an internal standard for the quantification of thyreostats, including 2-thiouracil, in bovine plasma.2
|1. Navrotskii, M.B. Synthesis and anti-HIV-1 activity of new 2-[(2-phthalimidoethyl)thio]-4(3H)-pyrimidinone derivatives. Pharm. Chem. J. 39(9), 466-467 (2005).|2. Schmidt, K.S. In-house validation and factorial effect analysis of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the determination of thyreostats in bovine blood plasma. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 406(3), 735-743 (2014).