Quinaldine, preparation reactions

On acetylation it gives acetanilide. Nitrated with some decomposition to a mixture of 2-and 4-nitroanilines. It is basic and gives water-soluble salts with mineral acids. Heating aniline sulphate at 190 C gives sulphanilic add. When heated with alkyl chlorides or aliphatic alcohols mono- and di-alkyl derivatives are obtained, e.g. dimethylaniline. Treatment with trichloroethylene gives phenylglycine. With glycerol and sulphuric acid (Skraup s reaction) quinoline is obtained, while quinaldine can be prepared by the reaction between aniline, paraldehyde and hydrochloric acid. 

For the preparation of pyrido[2,3-d]pvrimidinc-2,4(l//,3//)-diones 28, an adaption of the Doebner-Miller quinaldine synthesis (cf. Houben-Weyl, Vol. E7a, p 363), can be used. The orientation of addition of oc,/5-unsaturated carbonyl compounds to pyrimidin-6-amines is governed by the attack of C5 of the pyrimidinamine at the carbon /5 to the carbonyl function.219 Besides pyrimidine-2,4,6-triamine,149 263 aminouracils are used as partners for the base-catalyzed reaction with a,/5-unsaturated ketones.148,219 264,570,571 Without the final oxidation step, which occurs mostly by air, the dihydro compounds are produced.265 Examples are the Michael additions of 4,4-dimethyl-l-phenylpent-l-en-3-one266 or of 1,3-diphenylprop-2-en-l-one264 to 6-amino-l,3-dimethylpyrimidine-2,4(l//,37T)-dione, which are followed by ring closure to give the corresponding pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidme-2,4(l//,3//)-diones or their dihydro derivatives. 

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