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Nucleophilic Addition/Electrocyclization Strategy toward Polyheterocyclic-Fused Quinoline-2-thiones in Green Solvent
Xiao-Yun Li1, Yan Liu2, Bing Yu1
1College of Chemistry, Green Catalysis Center, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan Province 450001, China.
Abstract:
A metal-free and base-free cyclization reaction of ortho-heteroaryl anilines with isothiocyanatobenzene for the synthesis of diverse polyheterocyclic-fused quinoline-2-thiones was developed in PEG-200. This protocol features green solvent, lack of requirement for a metal and base, short reaction time consumption, and facile isolation via simple filtration. Furthermore, this protocol is easy to scale up which demonstrates outstanding synthetic scalability.
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