A-Quinoline

Doebner-von Miller reaction Condensation of an aromatic amine with an aldehyde or ketone in the presence of hydrochloric acid to form a quinoline derivative. A general method, thus aniline and ethanal give 2-methyl-quinoline (quinaldine) and p-phenetidine. 

A quinoline—bromine adduct in hot carbon tetrachloride containing pyridine gives a 90% yield of 3-bromoquinoline (21) 3-chloroquinoline [612-59-9] is prepared by an analogous route, but in poorer yield. A quinoline—aluminum chloride complex heated with bromine gives a 78% yield of 5-bromoquinoline [165-18-3] (22). Equal quantities of 5- and 8-bromoquinoline [16567-18-3] are formed when quinoline is treated with one equivalent of bromine in concentrated sulfuric acid containing silver sulfate (23). 

Ben2o[A]quinoline X-ray, 2, 110 <80AX(B)2076) Ben2o[a]quinoli2inium, 7-methyl-2, 534 (63RTC828)... 

In 1931 Ing pointed out that formula (II) and (III) do not contain methyl or potential methyl groups in j ositions 6 and 8 which they occupy in cytisoline. Further, a partially reduced quinoline ought to oxidise easily to a benzenecarboxylic acid and so far the only simple oxidation, products recorded from cytisine were ammonia, oxalic acid and isovaleric acid. Distillation of cytisine with zinc dust or soda-lime yields pyrrole and pyridine, but no quinoline. On these grounds Ing suggested that cytisine should be formulated without a quinoline nucleus, and that the reactions which indicate the presence of an aromatic nucleus in the alkaloid can be accounted for by an a-pyridone ring. This a-pyridone nucleus can... 

These results indicate that quinine and quinidine differ in structure from cinchonine and cinehonidine in containing a methoxyl group in position 6 in a quinoline nucleus. The identity of the other oxidation products, meroquinenine, cincboloiponic and loiponic acids, in all foiu" cases indicates that the second half of the molecule has the same structure in all four alkaloids. Further, this second half must be joined to the quinoline nucleus at position 4 by a group capable of conversion into carboxyl. 

These hydrolyses afford further evidence of the existence in the four alkaloids of a quinoline nucleus and of a second ring system containing a nitrogen atom. The formulae of the two alkaloids may, therefore, be extended thus Cinchonine, CgHjN. CiqHj5(OH)N Quinine,... 

Work also prepared a series of carbinolamines and polyamines without a quinoline nucleus but, in other respects, conforming in type and range of molecular weight, with quinoline compounds known to possess plasmocidal activity. As none of these were active, it seems clear that the quinoline nucleus in the cinchona alkaloids and in certain synthetic anti-malarials is a potent factor in the production of plasmocidal action. Later the same author made (1942) a series of lepidylamine derivatives of the form R. Q. CHj. NH[CH2] . NEtj, which were found to be inactive, in spite of their similarity to the active examples of the type R. Q. NH[CH2] . NEt2 prepared by Magidson and Rubtzow. Rubtzow (1939) has also shown that an isomeride of dihydroquinine (II) with the quinuclidine nucleus attached via the carbinol group at C in the quinoline nucleus was inactive in an infection of Plasmodium prcecox in finches. 

The Pfitzinger reaction describes the condensation of an o-aminophenylglyoxylic acid 16 (which can be generated in situ from an isatin IS) with 2 results in a quinoline-4-carboxylic acid (17), which is the subject of its own chapter in this book. ... 

Methyl-l//-pyrimido[l,2-a]quinolin-l-one was obtained by heating isopropylidene 2-[l-(2-quinolylamino)ethylidene]malonate in EtOH at 20 °C (00MI40). 

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