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Published on: February 7, 2019
Cascade synthesis of 3-quinolinecarboxylic ester via benzylation/ propargylation-cyclization
Jinmin Fan1, Changfeng Wan, Gaojun Sun
1Joint laboratory of Green Synthetic Chemistry and Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China.
Abstract:
Reactions of 2-amino-aryl alcohols with beta-ketoesters catalyzed by a catalytic amount of FeCl3 via tandem benzylation-cyclization produce the corresponding 3-quinolinecarboxylic esters in good to high yields. Extending this methodology to propargylation-cyclization, 2-nitrophenyl propargyl alcohols with beta-ketoesters catalyzed by FeCl3 and SnCl2 also produce the 4-alkyne-3-quinolinecarboxylic esters. The mechanistic details of this benzylation/propargylation and cyclization cascade process are also discussed.
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