Three new 2-methyl-4-styrylquinoline derivatives have been synthesized in high yields using Friedländer reactions between chalcones [1-(2-aminophenyl)-3-arylprop-2-en-1-ones] and acetone, and characterized using IR, 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry, and by crystal structure analysis. In (E)-4-(4-fluorostyryl)-2-methylquinoline, C18H14FN, (I), the molecules are joined into cyclic centrosymmetric dimers by C—H...N hydrogen bonds and these dimers are linked into sheets by π–π stacking interactions. The molecules of (E)-2-methyl-4-[4-(trifluoromethyl)styryl]quinoline, C19H14F3N, (II), are linked into cyclic centrosymmetric dimers by C—H...π hydrogen bonds and these dimers are linked into chains by a single π–π stacking interaction. There are no significant hydrogen bonds in the structure of (E)-4-(2,6-dichlorostyryl)-2-methylquinoline, C18H13Cl2N, (III), but molecules related by translation along [010] form stacks with an intermolecular spacing of only 3.8628 (2) Å. Comparisons are made with the structures of some related compounds.
Three new styrylquinoline–chalcone hybrids have been synthesized using a three-step pathway starting with Friedländer cyclocondensation between (2-aminophenyl)chalcones and acetone to give 2-methyl-4-styrylquinolines, followed by selective oxidation to the 2-formyl analogues, and finally Claisen–Schmidt condensation between the formyl intermediates and 1-acetylnaphthalene. All intermediates and the final products have been fully characterized by IR and 1H/13C NMR spectroscopy, and by high-resolution mass spectrometry, and the three products have been characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The molecular conformations of (E)-3-{4-[(E)-2-phenylethenyl]quinolin-2-yl}-1-(naphthalen-1-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, C30H21NO, (IVa), and (E)-3-{4-[(E)-2-(4-fluorophenyl)ethenyl]quinolin-2-yl}-1-(naphthalen-1-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, C30H20FNO, (IVb), are very similar. In each compound, the molecules are linked into a three-dimensional array by hydrogen bonds, of the C—H...O and C—H...N types in (IVa), and of the C—H...O and C—H...π types in (IVb), and by two independent π–π stacking interactions. By contrast, the conformation of the chalcone unit in (E)-3-{4-[(E)-2-(2-chlorophenyl)ethenyl]quinolin-2-yl}-1-(naphthalen-1-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, C30H20ClNO, (IVc), differs from those in (IVa) and (IVb). There are only weak hydrogen bonds in the structure of (IVc), but a single rather weak π–π stacking interaction links the molecules into chains. Comparisons are made with some related structures.
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