A facile and clean synthesis of novel 2-tropolonyl substituted quinoline-4-carboxylic acids via Pfitzingerreaction of 3-acetyltropolone or 3-acetyl-5-bromotropolone with different isatins in water was described. It was the first time that the Pfitzingerreaction was applied to the troponoid field. The structures of all the synthesized compounds were characterized by elemental analysis and spectral