Quinoline, in preparation of methyl

In 1883, Bottinger described the reaction of aniline and pyruvic acid to yield a methylquinolinecarboxylic acid. He found that the compound decarboxylated and resulted in a methylquinoline, but made no effort to determine the position of either the carboxylic acid or methyl group. Four years later, Doebner established the first product as 2-methylquinoline-4-carboxylic acid (8) and the second product as 2- methylquinoline (9). Under the reaction conditions (refluxing ethanol), pyruvic acid partially decarboxylates to provide the required acetaldehyde in situ. By adding other aldehydes at the beginning of the reaction, Doebner found he was able to synthesize a variety of 2-substituted quinolines. While the Doebner reaction is most commonly associated with the preparation of 2-aryl quinolines, in this primary communication Doebner reported the successful use of several alkyl aldehydes in the quinoline synthesis. 

A series of 2-aryloxazolo[4,5-/i]quinoline-5-arylidines was prepared by the reaction of 5,7-diamino-8-hydroxyquinoline with aromatic or aliphatic aldehydes in the presence of a basic catalyst such as piperidine. On the other hand, 2-styryl-5-diacetylamino-oxazolo[4,5-/i]quinolines were prepared by interaction of 2-methyl-5-diacetylamino-oxazolo[4,5-/i]quinoline with aromatic aldehydes (77MI1, 82MI2) (Scheme 6). 

Finally, the quinoline ring can be methylated at the 3 position with retention of biologic activity. The starting quinoline is prepared by the same scheme as that used for the desmethyl compound by substituting the methylated oxosuccinate ester, S6, in the sequence. The initial quinoline carboxylate (87) is taken on to the dichloro compound (88) by the standard reactions. Condensation with the ubiquitous diamine (76) affords sontoquine (89)... 

Hie reactions of 4-chloropyridines and quinolines 17 with benzotriazoles 18 in a modified Graebe-Ullman synthesis give excellent yields of Y arbolines and their benzo-fused derivatives 20. Excellent yields for preparation of the penultimate benzotriazole precursors 19 are reported as well. In the optimized one-pot conditions, the combined neat substrates are heated with microwave irradiation (MW) for short (7-10 min) durations. The crude 19 is treated with H4P2O7 and irradiated futher (4-6 min). The resultant y-carbolines 20 were methylated to form the quaternary salts. These were tested and found to lack DNA intercalation properties <96JOC5587>. 

Kuroda and Suzuki used reaction of 267a with 2-bromoaniline leading to anilide 312 as the first step of their sequence in the preparation of 1H-imidazo[4,5-c]quinolin-4(5//)-ones (Scheme 77) (91TL6915). Reaction of 267a with amines usually does not require any catalyst and/or base, but in this case use of sodium hydride was reported. The anilide 312 was sequentially alkylated, first with methyl iodide in ethanol with potassium hydroxide at room temperature and then with different alkyl iodides in acetone at reflux to provide intermediate 313. This compound was then cyclized via palladium catalyzed reaction leading to product 314. This reaction provides a new entry to l//-imidazo[4,5-c]quinolin-4(5//)-ones that are of current interest as antiasthmatic agents. 

Synthetic a-carbolines have also attracted interest as antitumor agents. For example, Chen and coworkers [97] prepared a series of indolo[2,3-fr] quinoline derivatives, the most active of which was 154, which had a mean GI50 value against three cancer cell lines of 0.78 iM. This compound was prepared by methylation of 153 with dimethyl sulfate (Fig. 43), and was isolated in 12% yield, along with isomeric 155, which was isolated in 40% yield, but had significantly lower cytotoxicity. Precursor 153 itself was found to be inactive. 

Replacing the metal Al by a boron atom as the metal chelate center, Tao et al. reported lithium tetra-(2-methyl-8-hydroxy-quinolinato) boron (LiB(qm)4, 240) (Scheme 3.73) quantitatively prepared by reaction of lithium borohydride (LiBH4) with four equivalents of 2-methyl-8-hydroxy-quinoline in ethanol at room temperature [266]. LiB(qm)4 is a pure blue emitter with a maximum peak emission at 470 nm with FWHM of 75 nm. Devices of... 

Preparation of a somewhat more complex leukotriene antagonist begins by aldol condensation of the methyl carbanion from quinoline (29-1) with meta-phthalalde-hyde (29-2) to give the stilbene-like derivative (29-3) dimer formation is presumably inhibited by the use of excess aldehyde. Reaction of that product with A,A-dimethyl-3-mercaptopropionamide in the presence of hexa-methylsilazane affords the silyl ether (29-4) of the hemimercaptal. Treatment of that intermediate with ethyl 3-mercaptopropionate leads to the replacement of the silyl ether by sulfur and the formation of the corresponding thioacetal (29-5). Saponification of the ester group leads to the carboxylic acid and thus to verlukast (29-6) [33]. 

Methoxy-2,3,4,4fl,5,6-hexahydro-lH-pyrazino[l,2-fl]quinoline was prepared by the cyclization of 8-methoxy-2-[(2-hydroxyethyl)amino-methyl]-l,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline, on the action of P205 in boiling xylene overnight (07MIP2). 

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