“…To highlight the merits of our newly developed procedures, we have compared our results for the synthesis of ethyl 2,7,7trimethyl-5-oxo-4-phenyl-1,4,5,6,7,8-hexahydroquinoline-3carboxylate using NS-[C 4 (DABCO-SO 3 H) 2 ]$4Cl as catalyst with other results reported in the literature and also N-sulfonated DABCO ([DABCO](SO 3 H) 2 (Cl) 2 ). 52 As it showed in Table 3, the newly developed method avoids some of the disadvantages associated with the other procedures such as long reaction time, large excesses of reagents, harsh reaction conditions and bad conditions for catalyst preparation.…”