Nano‐Mg‐ [4‐methoxy phenylsalicylaldiminemethylpyranopyrazole]Cl2 (nano‐[Mg‐4MSMP]Cl2) as a nano‐Schiff base complex was prepared and fully characterized using some various techniques including fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT‐IR), energy‐dispersive x‐ray spectroscopy (EDS), X‐ray diffraction (XRD), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), differential thermal gravimetric analysis (DTA), mass spectroscopy (MS) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Nano‐[Mg‐4MSMP]Cl2 was successfully used as an efficient catalyst for the preparation of some 1‐(α‐aminoalkyl) ‐2 ‐naphthols.