2,4-Dihydroxyquinoline, 1-Tetralone, Chromanone, 2,4-D ichloro-3-[l'-(l-chloro-naphth-2-yl)ethyl]quinoline, 2,4-D ichloro-3-[l'-(4-chloro-2-methyl-chromen-3-y 1 )ethyl]quinolineThe reaction of alkaline 2,4-dihydroxyquinoline 1 and 1-tetralone 2 in 2% sodium hydrox ide solution with vinyl acetate afforded a brown solid 3, which on treatment with phospho rous oxychloride yielded 2,4-dichloro-3-[l'-(l-chloro-naphth-2-yl)ethyl]quinoline (4). The same reaction of 1 and chromanone 7 with vinyl acetate afforded 2,4-dichloro-3-[l'-(4-chloro-2-m ethyl-chromen-3-yl)ethyl]quinoline (9).Quinoline derivatives occur quite frequently in Nature. They have interesting pharmacological activities like antihistamine, antibiotic, CNS, anti cancer, antiinflam m atory and antimicrobial prop erties [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]. An extensive survey of the literature showed that a variety of routes had been devel oped for the preparation of quinoline derivatives [14,15]. We wish to report the vinylation reaction technique to the mixture of 1 -tetralone or chro manone with 2,4-dihydroxyquinoline for the pro ductive synthesis of hitherto unknown quinoline derivatives.The reaction of alkaline 2,4-dihydroxyquinoline (la) and 1 -tetralone (2) with vinyl acetate at room tem perature yielded a brown solid. It was insolu ble in all solvents. On treatm ent with POCl3 it af forded a single product 4, melting at 125-126 °C. The IR-spectrum of 4 docum ented the presence of a C=C absorption in the 1600 cm -1 region. The 'H NM R spectrum in CDC13 showed a three proton doublet at 6 1.75, assigned to methyl protons with J = 9.0 Hz, one proton quartet centered at d 5.10, assigned to a m ethine proton adjacent to methyl protons with J = 9.0 Hz. A ten proton aromatic portion appeared at d 7.25-8.30 ppm. The em er gence of molecular ion peak at m/e 385 (M+) and the micro analysis C, 65.48%; H, 3.68% and N, 3.62% were consistent with the molecular formula C2 iH 14N Cl3. On the basis of analytical and * Reprint requests to Dr. K. J. Rajendra Prasad.Fax: 091-422-422387. E-mail: Chemist@bharathi.ernet.in spectral values, the structure 4 was proposed for the compound and named as 2,4-dichloro-3-[l'-(lchloro-naphth-2-yl)ethyl]quinoline (4a) (Scheme). The above reaction might proceed by condensa tion of vinyl acetate with 2,4-dihydroxy-quinoline (1 ) with the concomitant loss of acetic acid to yield the transient 4-hydroxy-3-vinylquinoline 5a. A n other possibility would be condensation of 2,4-dihydroxyquinoline (1 ) with acetaldehyde (formed by hydrolysis of vinyl acetate) affording 5b di rectly. The carbanionic Michael type addition of pre-existing 1-tetralone to isomeric 5b might af ford product 3. Finally, compound 3, on treatm ent with POCI3, could yield the corresponding chloro derivative 4 (Scheme).The same reaction was extended to an other de rivative of 2,4-dihydroxy quinoline (lb ) with 1-tetralone to yield derivative 4b (Scheme).The same experim entation technique was ex tended to 2,4-dihydroxyquinoline (la) with chromanones (7) with vinyl...