funcitonalized quinolines with the merits of broad substrate scope, good functional group tolerance, excellent hydrogen transfer selectivity, reusable earth-abundant metal catalyst, and operational simplicity. The developed chemistry paves the ways for further design of hydrogen transfer-mediated coupling reactions by developing heterogeneous catalysts with suitable supports.
methylenes/α‐oxoketene dithioacetals promoted by InCl3 in refluxing acetonitrile as well as under solvent‐free conditions in excellent yields. This transformation presumably proceeded through the hydroamination–hydroarylation of alkynes, and the Friedländer annulation of active methylene compounds and α‐oxoketene dithioacetals with 2‐aminoarylketones. In addition, simple reductive and oxidative cyclization of 2‐nitrobenzaldehyde
Copper triflate catalyzed annulation of 2-aminoaryl ketones with internal alkynes has been developed for the synthesis of polysubstituted quinolines in high yields under solvent-free conditions. Phenyl propiolic acid afforded the 3-unsubstituted quinolines via decarboxylation. The protocol is compatible with various internal alkynes and is expected to find wide applications due to its operational simplicity.
A mild and efficient protocol for synthesis of quinoline derivatives in aqueousmedium under neutral conditions is described. The reaction proceeded smoothly in H2O catalyzed by supramolecular catalyst β‐CD. By this protocol, various quinoline derivatives were synthesized in excellent yields.
An efficient protocol was developed for the recyclable nano CuO powder catalyzed synthesis of quinoline derivatives from acetylenedicarboxylates and 2-aminocarbonyl compounds using acetonitrile as solvent at 40 °C in air. A variety of quinoline derivatives were synthesized in good yields with good chemoselectivity in the presence of a catalytic amount of CuO nano powder under ligand/additive free conditions. The catalyst is air-stable, inexpensive and recyclable up to four cycles.