Novel [1,2,4]-triazolo-[1,5-a]pyrimidine derivatives were prepared by oxidative cyclization of suitable N-benzylidene-N′-pyrimidin-2-yl hydrazine precursors, followed by a Dimroth rearrangement. Reaction of 6-bromo-[1,2,4]-triazolo-[4,3-a]pyrimidines with aliphatic amines under microwave irradiation gave the unexpected 5-amino compounds from an ANRORC-type mechanism. Full NMR and HRMS characterization was done for all the obtained compounds. DFT calculations of absolute shielding permitted to predict ¹H, ¹³C and ¹⁵N chemical shifts, which were in good agreement with the experimental ones. Theoretical studies at the B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level corroborated that [1,2,4]-triazolo-[1,5-a]pyrimidines were more stable than their [4,3-a] counterparts.