Efficient construction of 3-arylquinolin-4(1 H )-ones via in situ Meinwald rearrangement/intramolecular reductive cyclization of 2′-nitrochalcone epoxides
An efficient method for construction of 3-arylquinolin-4(1H)-ones via in situ Meinwald rearrangement/intramolecular reductive cyclization of 2′-nitrochalcone epoxides has been developed. The practical approach is of excellent functional groups compatibility with as high as 98% yield under mild reaction conditions. Trapping and NMR analysis about the key intermediates of the transformation provided