piperazine‐1‐carbodithioate derivatives of 2‐substituted quinazolin‐4(3H)‐ones were synthesized via a five‐steps procedure starting from 2‐amino‐5‐methylbenzoic acid. The cytotoxicity of the resulting compounds against A‐549 (human lung cancer), HCT‐8 (human colon cancer), HepG2 (human liver cancer), and K562 (human myelogenous leukaemia) cell lines was determined by the MTT assay. Preliminary screening results of