New synthetic approaches for the synthesis of indoloquinolines and carbocycle-fused quinolines have been developed employing alkynylketone substrates. These synthetic transformations involved the application of N2-extrusion of azido complexes as a key step to generate carbodiimidium ion and nitriliumion in situ, which further cyclized intramolecularly with alkyne via a domino process to provide indoloquinolines
This study reported the discovery of novel compounds containing five-membered ring fused quinoline core structures as anticancer and antimalarialagents. Two libraries containing these core structures, neocryptolepines and carbocycle-fused quinolines, were prepared and evaluated. Compound 3h was found to be much more potent than other analogs against cancer cell lines with high selectivity. Meanwhile