“…In recent years, we have developed a programme devoted to the synthesis and biological evaluation of quinolyl derivatives (Moussaoui et al, 2002;Kedjadja et al, 2004;Menasra et al, 2004Menasra et al, , 2005Rezig et al, 2000). In a continuation of our efforts in this area, we report here a short and efficient procedure for the preparation of the title -aminonitrile, (2), containing a quinolyl ring system, and its crystal structure determination.…”