Enantiomerically pure 4-substituted 2-aralkyl-2,4-dihydro-1H-pyrazino[2,1-b]quinazoline-3,6-diones (1b-m) in which the alkyl chain is (CH(2))(n), n = 1-3, behave as glycine templates giving by treatment with [hydroxy(tosyloxy)iodo]benzene in ethyl acetate cis-1-tosyloxy derivatives. When these compounds contain electron-rich aryl substituents with n = 2, they spontaneously cyclize through intramolecular